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...which involves much subject matter-reading, writing, spelling, science, mathematics, and even music-based on the theme, 'Making a boat.' " Finally a Learning Lab is prepared, and when dad's vacation rolls around, he joins his son-and possibly his daughter, who is in the 52nd Self-Improvement Level-in "another exciting learning experience involving the entire family...
...most famous Oriental pearl necklaces ever assembled, a strand of 55 and another of 73 matched and graduated pearls, which in 1916 Mrs. Rovensky (then Mrs. Plant) received from her multimillionaire husband. Commodore Plant had taken them as payment of $1,000,000 for their house at 52nd Street and Fifth Avenue. The purchaser: Carder's, whose headquarters were established at the necklace-bought site...
...Meaning of Wealth." Before the 52nd Street house was sold. Plant called in Architect Guy Lowell, supervising architect of Boston's Museum of Fine Arts, to design the new mansion, including a library of Jacobean carved-oak paneling (see cut). To furnish the town house, Antique Dealer Arthur Vernay ransacked his own collection, sent scouts throughout Europe. The result has borne well the test of time. For the jade, Chinese porcelains, 18th-century French furniture, paneling, fixtures. Royal Beauvais tapestries by Jean-Baptiste Oudry, paintings by Watteau, Gainsborough, Lawrence, Romney and Raeburn. the current market will pay back...
...grew older. Roseland became even more decorous. In the '30s Brecker banned jitterbugging, and the number of hostesses steadily dwindled, finally (in 1950) disappeared. Tuxedoed bouncers (politely known as "housemen") prowled through the crowd to keep order. Last week's grand opening of the new Roseland (at 52nd Street, west of Broadway) suggested that henceforth it might be tougher to keep order...
...site on the east side of Sixth Avenue between 51st and 52nd Streets, just north of Radio City Music Hall, has been leased from the Equitable Life Assurance Society, which is financing the project and intends to build its own new home office directly across Sixth Avenue. One famed 51st Street institution to be affected is Toots Shor's Restaurant. Shor will hold out at his present base until a new home is built for him in a wing of the skyscraper, move in without missing a meal while the rest of the building is going...