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...this he would set up a clamor for "Rowbottom!" and other students, awakened from slumber, would fling open their windows and echo the cry, so that the sound sleeper's name, though he had long since moved on, has been immortalized on the Penn campus ever since: It takes only the cry of "Rowbottom!" to start a fracas at this season of the year. --The Philadelphia Inquirer...
...Funeral Home. The shrine is constructed, as often as possible, along the lines of a country club and rectory combined. Outside, there are gracious plantings of evergreens-designed to "create favorable public sentiment." Inside, there is a sumptuous succession of music rooms, chapels, lavatories, storerooms, and, of course, "slumber rooms." The decoration is "subdued but cheerful," which enables many funeral homes, when their business is lagging, to rent space to wedding parties. And here, where the reek of euphemism mingles with the chemical deodorant and the recorded hymn, has been perfected "the new aesthetic of death," a specifically American response...
Grisly Jollity. Before entering the American slumber room, the authors sketch the millennia of funeral customs that...
Reading Period, Harvard's unique cramming gimmick, will open inauspiciously tomorrow. For many, only the longer morning slumber hours will mark its advent. Others' dreams may be marred, however, by the examination specter and visions of three-hour sessions over blue books in sultry classrooms. Although the examination itself is a necessary evil in the large university, its procedure here seems to be the University's unique anachronism in the Machine Age. The Administration has repeatedly resisted any attempts to make exam-taking less tedious by allowing skilled students to type their examinations in special rooms...
Self-Tuning Radio. For listeners who want to fall asleep to soft music on one station and wake up to loud jazz on another, Radio Corp. of America has marketed a new clock radio. Slumber King has a new control device that is preset to shift the dial and change the volume at the desired time. Price...