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Agreeable Creatures. Sir Thomas lives in a baronial Manhattan duplex with Tudor interiors, leaves it occasionally for walks in nearby Central Park. On warm days he sometimes has a taxi follow him with his overcoat. He smokes continuously, preferring light Havana cigars. He refers to tea as "poison" and says of his preference: "I have to drink a certain amount of Scotch, very much against my will." When his chronic gout once got the better of him in Philadelphia, he had him self pushed on the stage in a wheelchair and conducted the performance while sitting. At one New York...
...PLEASE! Well-behaved little sisters, Eileen, 3; Patricia, 4 months, and their mammie need furnished house, apartment, duplex, or will share home...
Lena Horne and her four-year-old daughter by an early, unsuccessful marriage occupy a five-room duplex apartment in Hollywood across the street from Humphrey Bogart's. In Manhattan Lena lives obscurely in a small room in Harlem's Theresa Hotel. Every day her aging mother makes the trip from Brooklyn to the Theresa to see that Lena eats properly and wears her rubbers...
...empty engine mounts of the world's largest flying boat still gaped last week like empty tooth sockets. But in the well-guarded assembly building at the great Martin aircraft plant at Middle River, Md. the four 2,000-h.p. Wright Duplex Cyclones that will drive Glenn Martin's "No. 170" were on hand; so were the huge props. It would not be long before Martin's 170, called by the Navy XPB2M-I,- would be ready for her first trip aloft...
These dispositions, which could be used two ways, were supplemented by duplex tactics. To the minimal detail, the German troops knew what to do on the offense, what on defense; for in most cases the tasks were identical, though differently applied, the equipment identical, though differently used...