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...stands, the Adams House unit is made up of the former Westmorely Court to the east, and the former Randolph Hall to the west, with the new "C" Entry occupying a central position between the two buildings. A subway passage, which goes under Plympton Street and extends from Randolph to Westmorely, unites the various buildings in Adams House into a single residential unit...
Other New Yorkers who happened to be near the East River at 135th St. one morning last week told of seeing the 44-year-old excursion steamer Observation push off from her pier with the usual cargo of workmen going to their jobs on a new-penitentiary on an island in the river. Next instant, deafened by a water-boiling explosion, they saw a great cloud of smoke spouting a horrid spray of bodies, fragments of wood and metal, fragments of bodies over a 200-yard area of land and water...
...otherwise designated, all books reviewed in TIME were published within the fortnight. TIME readers may obtain any book of any U. S. publisher by sending check or money-order to cover regular retail price ($3 if price is unknown, change to be remitted) to Ben Boswell of TIME. 135 East 42nd St., New York City...
...medical centre, a splendidly massed group of eleven aseptic-looking white buildings, glistens upon the East River at 68th Street. It represents an amalgamation of New York Hospital (oldest in the U. S. save for Philadelphia's Pennsylvania), Bloomingdale Hospital, Lying-in Hospital, Manhattan Maternity Hospital, and Cornell Medical College. Dr. George Canby Robinson, director of the joint administrative board of the organization, hopes it will become "a modern temple of healing...
When journalists inspected the buildings the day before the official opening last week, they wondered how to prevent confusion between two clumsily named Manhattan institutions-the whitish New York Hospital-Cornell Medical College Association at East 68th Street & East River, and the tawny Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center (largely endowed by Edward Stephen Harkness) at West 108th Street overlooking the North (Hudson ) River. The long formal names are necessary for legal and sentimental reasons. Nicknames suggested: East River, East Side, or Whitney Medical Centre; and North River, West Side, or Harkness Medical Centre...