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...vacation. The tender charm of the parental hearth. And he was saddened by the reflection that he had no home other than Harvard. True it was a fine place but there was no denying a lack of homely atmosphere resplendent in the surroundings. No milk-bottles on the back-porch, for instance...
Spreading a blob of mortar with a silver trowel, tapping lightly a great block of white limestone, Mrs. Herbert Hoover announced last week: "On behalf of the National Women's Committee of the Washington Cathedral, I declare that the first stone of the North Porch is duly and truly laid. May God bless and prosper the work of our hands upon us." The North Porch thus consecrated is the gift of U. S. womanhood to the nation's Westminster Abbey: the Protestant Episcopal Cathedral of Sts. Peter and Paul, abuilding these many years on Mt. St. Alban...
...speckle U. S. suburbs. Designed by A. Lawrence Kocher and Albert Frey, the Magic House has no excavated basement. The owner enters through the garage, climbs a staircase near the oil-burning furnace room to a duplex living room, dining room, library. The designers expect that the covered sun porch and outdoor living room will be the most popular feature of the house. They claim that the three-inch walls of aluminum and celotex are better insulated and more weatherproof than the eight-inch frame sidings of suburban cottages...
...Detroit young Bernard Lotus drank deep of stimulants, then climbed with his girl, into his automobile. During the next few moments he: drove over the curb and took the porch off a house, crumpling his fenders; raced a half block to a garage, drove in, offered to fight the garage-owner; chased his girl, who had then breathlessly departed, but failed to catch her; climbed Dack in his car, drove out of the garage and, speedily, into a parked car owned by one Fred Stoetzer; offered to fight about 50 men who gathered around the accident; offered to fight Stoetzer...
Largest exhibit of the main floor was the Georgian garden of Florist Scheepers. Here were pink blossoming peach trees, dogwood, lilac and tulips, a brick-lined lily pool, and on the iron trellised porch of a white brick Georgian house with peacock blue blinds, Macaw Toto in his cage. A brilliant example of the art of landscape architecture was not Mr. Scheepers' only contribution to the show. From his greenhouses came two new flowers never before exhibited in the U. S., the Sweet Glad and the Glory...