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...love living here," Mrs. Mary Ann Round commented yesterday, as she maneuvered her daughter away from the electric heater that constituted the bed- room heating plant. "Everything's pretty well organized now," her business school husband George offered, "but on really cold days we've had to close off the living room and one bed-room and put rugs under all the doors...
Upshot. In Danville, Ill., a farmer's wife was cleaning out her husband's pockets when a shotgun shell fell out, dropped on a heater, shot her in the hand...
...furnace can be used as a space heater, embedded in a wall between two rooms to heat both, or stuck on a closet shelf to heat two or more rooms through short ducts. Two such units, said Stewart-Warner President James S. Knowlson, can heat the average six-room house, can be installed by one man. Cost: $200 a heater...
Most artists are fussy about their paints, but few go to such lengths as Berlin-born Karl Zerbe. His pictures, which hang in 21 U.S. museums, are painted in colors mixed with hot beeswax over a stove, and afterwards cooked into the canvas with an electric heater. The Greeks had a word for it: encaustic. The Egyptians and Greeks liked encaustic for its permanency, used it for murals and mummy portraits. But since the 10th Century few painters had bothered with...
...sink, a stove and a refrigerator, amounting to what real-estate merchants call a "kitchenette." The bedrooms run off the main room, and the bathroom, which contains, among other things, a shower, is discreetly hidden. The whole place is kept warm by a single circulatory kerosene heater, and a few of the tenants are wondering what's going to happen when winter comes...