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Despite its closeness to the disjointed rattle of Boylston street, this unlabored decor has captured a rare kind of leisure for Henry IV. "Even the Americans," Genevieve claims, "seem to cat slower and really enjoy themselves here at night. And I discovered that Americans like fancy things after all; snails are the most popular dish. I import them from France, but the sauce, the most important part, is made right here...

Author: By Michael O. Finkelstein, | Title: Club Henri IV | 4/28/1953 | See Source »

Fabrics for Refrigerators. International Harvester's new Decorator Model refrigerators will have fabric-covered doors designed to: 1) eliminate the chipping of enamel or porcelain door finishes; 2) let the housewife match her refrigerator with her kitchen decor. The changeable washable fabrics will be available in a variety of patterns, with window curtains to match...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GOODS & SERVICES: New Ideas, Dec. 29, 1952 | 12/29/1952 | See Source »

...past, the delay cannot be too long. The lighting, designed especially for courses using slides, features a brilliantly illuminated stage, and overhead spotlight fixtures, equipped with what seem to be sixty-watt bulbs. The paltry number of foot-candles falling from above usually get lost in the dirty greenish decor...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Bright Hope | 9/30/1952 | See Source »

...though they may view cavorting bovines on the walls instead of grump Bostonians frequenters of the Harkness dining room must still endure trays of the middle plasticene era. These are not the square old clothes and give variety only the Union renowned for its moose heads and Victorian decor can countenance that but the round type with low partitions. Despite all the modern conveniences that Gropius can offer graduate students still must watch out for vinegar in their bread pudding...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: They Right Hand... | 5/23/1952 | See Source »

...Hubert Eaton, 70, director of California's Forest Lawn Cemetery, is a cheerful man. In his credo, inscribed on a tablet at Forest Lawn, he has written: "I believe, most of all, in a Christ that smiles and loves you and me." The sunny decor of Forest Lawn- "the bright and cheerful private slumber rooms ... the beautiful vistas of green lawns and tall trees"-reinforces the theology.* But Dr. (honorary LL.D.) Eaton, who has already stocked his cemetery with a trove of religious paintings and statuary (including a replica of Michelangelo's David, with fig leaf added...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Wanted: the American Smile | 5/19/1952 | See Source »

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