Word: roome
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ARCHITECTURAL FORUM published rough plans, which Franklin Roosevelt sketched and initialed last February and Architect Henry J. Toombs of Atlanta trued up, for a five-room, one-story ''dream house" on the President's lately purchased, 70-acre tract next to his mother's estate at Hyde Park. In his rendered perspective drawings, Architect Toombs respectfully subscribed himself only as an "associate" of Architect Roosevelt (unlicensed). Comparison of Mr. Roosevelt's sketches with Mr. Toombs's finished plans revealed a fairly high degree of competence in the amateur, only minor improvements by the professional...
These include: the great Jones Beach (where 130,000 bathers can throw horseshoes, pitch-putt-golf, listen to opera, row their babies on South Oyster Bay or diaper them in a room specially set aside, and "build their bodies" under free instruction facilities); Jacob Riis Park (which has the world's largest one-unit parking space -14,000 cars); Orchard Beach on Pelham Bay (where 100,000 bathers can cavort on 6,600,000 cu. yd. of ocean sand of which 2,500,000 was hauled from Rockaway); Bethpage Park (where the near-rich can play polo...
...Room Service (Harpo, Groucho and Chico Marx; TIME...
Harvard-Dartmouth Ball given in the Grand Ball Room. Red Nerve, Mildred Bailey and their orchestra. Couple $3.50, Stag $2.50. Friday...
...other hand, his work with the Nieman Fellows is well defined. The common room in Straus Hall has been obtained as a meeting place for the Fellows, and MacLeish drops in from 12 to 1 o'clock every noon to talk things over with them...