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...Abner-on Broadway and in the film-she was a monadnock of sex as "Stupefyin' Jones." In The Marriage-Go-Round, she won a Tony award for standing on the stage dressed only in a towel and begging Charles Boyer, as a brilliant professor, to unite his mighty mens sana with her massive corpore sano. She brings the same sort of ingenuous sexuality to her role as a TV robot, managing the difficult trick of being comical and at the same time alluring enough to start the Colossus of Rhodes off his blocks...
Chicago's 16-story Monadnock Building, built in 1891, required masonry 15 ft. thick at the base to support the crushing load. Such walls were made unnecessary by the so-called "curtain wall," hung from the building's frame. But since World War II, the architects' slang for a building's outer covering, "skin," has become especially appropriate; thin, lightweight metals and glass have turned more and more office buildings into glistening, icy slabs of graph-paper monotony. What Frank Lloyd Wright called "those flat-chested facades" has become a national vice...
...reply, Daniel F. Eneguess. executive secretary of the Monadnock Region Association, the sponsor of the offer, said, "If we can take any industry away from Cambridge, we'd be darn glad...
...other activies the H.O.C. has a shelter on Mount Monadnock, near Jaffrey, New Hampshire, the object of several trips through the year. These trips, of course...
...also, when there were such things as isolationists, a veritable monadnock...