Word: poole
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Balcon, 55, runs Ealing with few Hollywood mannerisms. "I'm not a glamour boy," he says. "I loathe cigars, I haven't got a swimming pool, I've only been married once, and I'm a mass of indecisions." His writers and directors talk over their ideas at round-table conferences, often held in a pub across the street...
...however, was enlivened by a sense of mystery brought on by the fact that the building's donor refused to make himself known even to former Director of Athletics William J. Bingham. "Alumnus Acquaticus", as he preferred to be known, first offered the University $100,000 for a swimming pool in 1926, and then, after a series of confidential talks, agreed to give a total of $250,000 for an athletic building. The University was to supply whatever additional funds were needed for the cost of the construction, estimated at the time to be $600,000. Expenses however, mushroomed...
Right from the start, the swimming pool--around which the entire building was planned--was the center of attraction. Because of the acquatic interests of the original donor--who after his death in 1949 was revealed to have been Ernest Stillman '08--the whole building was centered about the swimming pool. Indeed, the top floor with its basketball course was somewhat of an afterthought, and was not completed until the rest of the building had been in use for several months. The sense of light and airiness given to the pool makes it one of the most beautiful...
...main pool is 75 feet, 3/16 of an inch long--the extra fraction as added to make sure that all records made in it are legitimate ones. The walls and ceiling of the pool room are coated with a special plaster composition designed to kill the echoes usually found in such large tiled halls. Because many swimmers going in the same direction together set up great lateral water pressure, the pool is reinforced by bracings which extend to the outside foundations of the Blockhouse...
Water used to fill the pool is first filtered through enormous tanks in the sub-basement which contain a type of sand found only near Cape May, New Jersey. The water in the pool is changed over three times daily, but the pool itself is emptied and cleaned but once a year...