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Died. Christopher Darlington Morley, 66, bearded poet, essayist, critic, playwright, author of some 50 books (Parnassus on Wheels, The Haunted Bookshop, Thunder on the Left, Kitty Foyle); of a cerebral thrombosis after a long illness; in Roslyn Heights, N.Y. Twice editor of Bartlett's Familiar Quotations (1937, 1948), authority on Joseph Conrad, Kit Morley also delighted in daffy verse, wrote LIFE'S editor on a Battle of Britain story (1941) in which the battlefield 80 miles long, 38 wide and from five to six high was described as a "cube...
While Dr. Leo M. Taran was gathering ideas for a new operating suite, to be built at St. Francis Hospital and Sanatorium for Cardiac Children at suburban Roslyn, N.Y., he visited dozens of U.S. hospitals and inspected their equipment for delicate heart surgery. Always he ended by asking his hosts: "What's wrong with it?" And always, from their experience, they could suggest improvements. Last week, as medical director of St. Francis, Dr. Taran unveiled the operating suite that he had planned as a result of these studies. It had everything...
Last year, Helena Rubinstein Inc. sold $18 million worth of creams, lotions and perfumes in the U.S., Canada and Latin America. Rubinstein salons and outlets abroad sold $12 million more. That was not enough for Helena Rubinstein. Last week, in Roslyn, N.Y., she opened a new $4,000,000 plant to put her beauty business on an assembly-line basis and triple her production. Made mostly of glass, it has dustproof floors, a sealed, odorproof room for testing perfumes, huge, stainless-steel mixing vats to churn up tons of cream and cologne, and machines to fill 1,000,000 bottles...
...homes in the Levitt-built Roslyn Country Club community may not be as interesting sociologically (they sell in the $18-$23,000 bracket) or statistically (he's building "only" 400 of them this year) as his smaller and more numerous dwellings, but they are creating a "new way of life" for higher-income families just as surely and dramatically as his Levittown houses are for the younger...
...Roslyn Heights...