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...methods of making the Charles River Basin more safe, suitable, and attractive for recreation and civic welfare purposes", improvements are now under way for the widening of the Charles River Esplanade, construction of a boat haven and breakwater near the Union Boat Club, and the construction of a lagoon, 1000 feet in length, oposite Exeter and Fairhaven Streets, so that the present park will extend with out a break, from the dam to Cottage Farm Bridge...
...Manus are isolated, unreformed by missionaries, almost uncontaminated by white men. They live in thatched huts set on piles in a lagoon. Children learn to swim, to use a boat, almost before they can walk. For six months Margaret Mead and her husband lived among the Manus, learnt their language, their tabus, took photographs, asked questions, saw as much as they were allowed. Anthropologist Mead's conclusion is that among the Manus only the children have a really good time. Children do exactly as they please; parent's may plead, they never discipline. But with marriage a hard life begins...
Frank P. Blair, Chicago diver, last week adjusted his helmet, slowly submerged himself in Lake Michigan. With careful, heavy movements he prowled around the bottom, searched through jumbled cans, tires, bottles. Diver Blair is a good searcher. He it was who recovered from the muddy Jackson Park Lagoon the typewriter which helped incriminate Murderers Leopold and Loeb in 1924. When he emerged last week, he brought up two heavy objects. They were counterfeit seals of the University of Chicago and Northwestern University...
...likely that the fairgrounds will be shaped and hollowed like a giant amphitheatre, the centre axis being a lagoon, 2,000 x 600 ft. Entering the Fair on an upper level of this lagoon, visiting dignitaries such as the U. S. President will float on ceremonial barges through a succession of descending locks to the lower levels. The dignitary and his voyage will be visible to every person at the Fair, spectators merely having to stand on the terraces or roofs of the various buildings to survey the entire amphitheatre...
...Larimore has all the grace, and enough of the busy play of expression that belonged to the actor-guardsman. In Hamlet black, with a tight head of red curls that are in a mad way exact for the role, Mosca moves swiftly, and used the stage from footlights to lagoon balcony and from box to box. At times his fingers, fitting the gilded carvings of the Hollis side pillars are all that keep him out of several well-known laps...