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...many of his days are now, the President's birthday, May 8, was quiet and routine. It started in the enlarged and refurnished glass solarium atop the White House, where the President had a leisurely breakfast with Mrs. Truman and Margaret, opened presents and some birthday mail and telegrams. Then, after his morning staff conference, he strolled in the White House garden with Bess and Margaret, posed for a birthday picture with them, flashing one of his biggest smiles for photographers...
...there are the favorite haunts which the girls visit regularly, including the Cider Mill, a museum about two miles from the campus; the solarium, the discreet roof of Kenyon Hall "for unrestricted sunbathing"; and the Alumnae House pub and Retreat, two campus food dispensaries...
...tenth and highest floor is a solarium. It is set under a system of skylights and is bounded on four sides by the complicated masonry which inevitably goes with Gothic architecture...
17th Floor for Growing. On the roof, tenants will be able to run races around a 120-meter track, swim in a pool, lounge in a solarium. Children can do most of their growing up on the 17th floor: romp in a nursery, play games in a playground, train in a gymnasium, or go to classes in a schoolroom. On the seventh floor, parents can shop, eat at the restaurant or drugstore, visit the barber or clinic. "Relieved of the two great burdens of heavy housework and the care of children," Le Corbusier explains, "the family will live a happy...
...atmosphere reminiscent of a Southern female academy, vintage 1845. Super-chaperones shooed off men, warned each of the 40 contestants not to drink, smoke or chew gum. Stiffly genteel throughout, the chaperones simply ignored a man with field glasses who peered from a nearby sundeck into the solarium of the Senator Hotel when the girls assembled there (fully clothed). At one point the young ladies were inducted into a "sorority" called Mu Alpha Sigma, which was invented by the contest directors solely for Miss America entrants. Its motto: Modesty, Ambition, Success...