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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Grebe's machine is a U-shaped room, 7 by 12 feet, which can be fitted some where into a house - or, under its own roof, added on. Grebe suggests that a large house may have several units (guests might want to do their own laundry or pick up a snack in privacy). At the base of the U is a Swedish-type stove, burning smokeless coal, which supplies heat and power for the unit. Along one arm of the U is ranged a food-freezing compartment, a refrigerator, an ironing machine, warming ovens, a cooking range (using pressure...
Last week the Allied Commission announced that Leonardo da Vinci's faded, dusty masterpiece, The Last Supper, had survived time, bungling repairs and bombs. The convent's roof had been destroyed in August 1943, but the wall painting, no longer protected by sandbags and steel scaffolding, was again on view. Only one retouching job would be necessary: a four-inch square in the tunic of St. James the Greater...
...suicide took place in the evening, in a summer house across the street from the suicide's rooming house. In the summer house police found about 20 cigaret stubs, the revolver, a bullet hole in the roof, and some particles of brain matter. "He must have remained unconscious for some hours. Snow began to fall at 6 next morning. . . . About 7 a.m., after it had stopped snowing, he had staggered from the summer house. . . . His footsteps could be traced in a rough circle round the gardens from tree to tree and back to the summer house, a distance...
...travels of Fred Balentine and B. Joe Nielson are now history, but include such N. Y. notables as Zanzibar, Stork, Waldorf, Astor Roof, La Martinique, Copacabana, El Morecco, and the Diamond Horseshoe. These muchly-traveled lads must truly be big-city smoothies...
Later, the Sun Goddess sent her grandson, Prince Rice-Plenty, to govern the Earth. In good time, the Sun Goddess' great-great-grandson, Jimmu, became Japan's first emperor. He commanded his descendants to bring all the eight corners of the universe under the one roof of Japan...