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...reasons are given for this: the Licensing Board has no jurisdiction in Cambridge, and the clientele needs no bouncing. Proprietors of the homes of foam in the Harvard area are unanimous in their opinion of bouncing: unnecessary...
Among the exhibits, however, there were still a few pieces to startle conservatives. Charles Eames's canvas-and-plastic chair with ventilated seat looked for all the world like an atomic-age version of a toilet seat. Florence Knoll's immense, pancake-thin air-foam bed, perched on spindly legs, had an insubstantial look that suggested uneasy napping. And too often, for all their inexpensive materials and simplified design, even the most agreable modern furnishings were higher-priced than the overdecorated, overstuffed period pieces most Americans are used...
...houses made of steel and "foam concrete" went up singly or in six-family units (see cut). His one-family houses sold for 14,000 Deutsche marks ($4,200 at the official exchange rate). Within a few days Messerschmitt was swamped with orders...
...matter of (1) size of the glass, (2) amount of foam, and (3) percent of Scotch blood in the bartender. Right now a keg of beer yields between 190 and 220 ten cent glasses. Cronin's uses a nine-ounce glass, one of the largest around here, and settle for 190 per barrel. The Wursthaus, on the other hand, employs an eight-ounce glass, and works every barrel for well over 200 servings...
...gimmick in the five cent beer is the small glass that surrounds it. The publicity conscious barkeep in New York now in the national spotlight is supposed to use a six-ounce stein for his nickel brew. Local pourers suspect his heads foam unusually high. Another tavern on 96th Street sells ten cent beer in nine-ounce glasses, and five cent helpings in four-ounce steins. The profit here still goes to the clever samaritan who paid for the television set over your head...