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...garage, a sunken garden, subterranean passages to funnel its 10,000 workers to nearby subways. Architects Robert Carson and Earl Lundin plan to set the metal and glass-faced tower back from the thoroughfare, flank it with one- and two-storied shops and restaurants to give emphasis to the slab construction...
...buildings that cost $15 apiece. Besides, said one ICA health official, "brass and wood plaques are used to dignify a structure. You can't do that with these buildings." Last week the problem was solved. The markers will be suitably inscribed in the floor section of the concrete slab, there for all to contemplate. Each slab will carry the simple ICA emblem over a U.S. shield...
...this era of short fences and hopped-up baseballs, Roberts' achievements are not easily come by. Managers flash their signals from the bench and teammates bawl their encouragement. But pitching is a loner's art. Once a man places his forefoot on the white rubber slab and takes aim at the plate 60 ft. 6 in. away, he is on his own. Only his craft and strength can whip the ball safely past the waiting batter...
...England's Nottingham galley was smashed to bits on rocky Boon Island, just six miles off the coast of Maine. What the crew of 14 sees the next morning is enough to test the fiber of any man: a ledge on which nothing grows, a slab of rock pounded by huge seas. The ship has vanished in the night, the men have nothing but the clothes they wear. There is no food, no firewood, no water. Novelist Roberts has a perfect chance to sort out the men from the weaklings. Some of them lie down and wait for death...
...Galerie Charpentier, a mediocre Monet brought more than $4,000; so did a Renoir portrait which was more oddity than masterpiece (it was painted on a ten-inch circular stone slab). A Rouault landscape was knocked down for $5,700, an early Montmartre view by Utrillo went for $5,300, a Still Life with Flowers by Pierre Bonnard was quickly bid up from $5,700 to $14,000. Even a small Chagall gouache went...