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Franklin Delano Roosevelt, senior warden of St. James's Episcopal Church, Hyde Park, N.Y., was presented with a 120-year-old family Bible, once owned by the second wife of his maternal great-grandfather, Warren Delano. It was found in the attic of the old Delano house in New Bedford, Mass...
...smoke-filled attic of London's trade-union building near Marylebone Station, 70 of the city's 6,000 taximen solemnly resolved that what cabbies needed was their own M.P.-someone in the House of Commons to get them : 1 ) a taxi transport board; 2) "every man his own cab." Cried Alf Wheeler of Hornsey, hoarsely: "Give us a bit of the democracy we ruddy cabbies 'ave braved the blackout...
Pablo Ruiz y Picasso, in his old attic studio in Paris' rue Saint Augustin, surrounded by pictures of blue women with square feet, declared that he had not only refused to collaborate with the Germans, said: "I even annoyed them." Said he: "They forbade my works to be shown because Hitler named me . . . decadent. But simple Nazi soldiers used to visit me. When they left I presented them with a souvenir postcard of my painting Guernica...
...Stewart-Warner Corp. has developed a gasoline-burner the size of a waste basket, capable of generating enough heat for a 20-room house. Based on the hot-air heater now used in planes, the unit can be hung from attic rafters, with a blower to distribute the hot air by means of ducts in the walls and registers in each room. Stewart-Warner has not announced the cost of such a central heater but estimates that a one-room unit will cost $20 to $30. It also estimates that fuel costs will be no higher than those...
...Prime Minister has retreated more & more into the book-lined attic study at his home, Laurier House in Ottawa. This is the real center of Canada's Government. He is at work there at 9 (and except for the daily Cabinet meeting and Parliament) he is still there at 11 o'clock at night. His most constant companion is an Irish terrier, Pat. The only man who calls him by a given name is Franklin Roosevelt (he calls him "Mackenzie...