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Johnny Green, Harvard '28, musical director of M-G-M, and composer of Body and Soul, I'm Yours, and I Cover the Waterfront, lounged with loosened tie on the sofa of his Ritz-Carlton suite, and grinned. "Man, these world premieres get you down...
...Nick. In Franklin, Ky., police got a telephone distress call to hurry "out to my house because something awful is about to happen," sped to the address, found, crouched behind the sofa, Billy Kratzert, 4, who pointed a trembling finger at his baby sitter, said: "She was going to spank...
...England competition comprised 172 paintings and drawings, and 34 examples of sculpture. The quality of the first category was high, with only four or five pieces of utter trash. The first prize in painting went for some reason to Fannie Hillsmith's "Pink Sofa," with other awards to Justin Curry, Glen Krause, Beverly Hallam, Henrik Mayer, John McClusky and Teal McKibben...
...1930s, pull-out sofa beds cut into Murphy's markets. World War II housing regulations hurt them more by classifying the beds as furniture instead of structural built-ins, cutting them out of mortgage packages. Progress and Government rules folded Murphy bed sales. To recoup, Murphy concentrated on selling "efficiency" kitchens for small apartments. Last year his Murphy Door Bed Co. sold only 10,000 letdown beds, making most of its $1,000,000 sales from kitchen units. Last week, as the company planned a comeback in house-trailer Murphy beds, Inventor Murphy died at 81 in Belle Vista...
...House can't have the entry system, or fireplaces, or private baths. Without the insurance of period design, it may be like a horse-hair sofa today, an object of horror thirty years hence. And it may have the acoustical virtues of a giant tuning fork like that Great Mistake, Harkness Commons. But for all that, we're glad its on the way. Lebensraum...