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...Important repair work on 17 U.S. and British ships was delayed when 6,000 C.I.O. workers at Robins Drydock and Repair Co., New York, quit work for three days. Reason: acetylene-torch burners would not work beside four non-union burners...
After seven lean years of Dartmouth victories, tomorrow will be a fat day for the Crimson," promised Captain Franny Lee before a huge torch-lit mob in front of the Varsity Club...
...Made the Pants Too Long (Vaughn Monroe; Bluebird). Belly-laughable satire on torch songs in general, on Lord, You Made the Night Too Long in particular...
...elementary chemistry courses, and it was during an experiment in one of these that a student named Charles William Eliot, Harvard's future President, was nearly killed. The professor put some explosive material in an iron pot, stood behind a closet door, and touched it off with a torch fastened on the end of a long pole. The result drove a large piece of the pot past Eliot's arm, and into the back of the wooden bench on which he was sitting...
...solo winter sports carnival, proves to be no slouch at parlor games and turns in a first rate romantic performance. Playing a Norwegian refugee adopted by Miller's band as a publicity gag, Sonja falls for pianist-arranger John Payne. He, however, is already somewhat attached to torch singer Lynn Bari. The torcher oozes more sex appeal than the skater, but she's a dub in the snow. So Sonja gets Payne out in the open and love soon finds a way to leave the hot mama out in the cold...