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Gilt-Edged Lilies. For amateur theatricals (often by Philadelphia's socialite Savoyards), Du Pont built an outdoor theater with 62-ft. stage, arboreal wings and a curtain that rises instead of falling after each act (a screen of water gushing upward from hidden fountains). Elsewhere, batteries of. fountains play in intricate patterns, illuminated at night by masses of colored floodlights-red, blue, green, flame, flesh pink and moonlight tones. The fountains can spray water at the rate of 840,000 gallons hourly; a single fountain, Old Faithful, shoots jets 140 feet high or fanning out 100 feet wide...
...Best picture: The Caine Mutiny (Columbia); The Country Girl (Paramount); On the Waterfront (Columbia); Seven Brides for Seven Brothers (M-G-M); Three Coins in the Fountain (20th Century...
Without Tips. Even the surviving stores could not, with rare exceptions, stay in business without "extras"-greeting cards, fountain pens, records, etc. J. R. ("Jack") Cominsky, publisher of the Saturday Review, suggested to booksellers that they add travel bureaus, ticket bureaus and Western Union branches to stay afloat; he did not even want bookstores to be called bookstores, quoted a department-store president who suggested "community centers for modern living." Book clerks are underpaid, frequently know little about their wares. Said one, a veteran of 40 years in the largest bookshops: "The turnover in employees is greater than the turnover...
Refreshment Stand. An office drinking fountain that also supplies steaming hot water for mixing instant coffee, tea, cocoa and soup has been put on sale by Ebco Manufacturing Co., of Columbus, Ohio. A blue button operates either a cold-water bubbler or a faucet; a red one turns on the hot water faucet...
...Every city requires a sheltered meeting place," Chermayeff continued, "and the great concourse is better than anywhere else. The fountain outside the Plaza Hotel is often cold and wet, and there just isn't enough room under the clock at the Baltimore...