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...Doris Duke Cromwell's behavior, her husband charged, was the chief cause of his humiliating defeat when he ran for U.S. Senator from New Jersey in 1940. During the summer, Mrs. Cromwell had been ill at Shangrila, her lush Hawaiian estate with an orchid-hung solarium and a $20,000 hydraulically elevated diving board. When Mrs. Cromwell's secretary learned that Politician Cromwell planned to rush to his wife's bedside, she telephoned from Hawaii to warn him that he would not be welcome -that he would, in fact, be locked out. "I don't care...
Germany's Stuka is an ugly, husky, single-motored monoplane with an upswept and backswept wing. Under its glass solarium are seats for pilot and gunner in tandem. On the wing's leading edge are two fixed machine guns, firing aft is another on a swivel mount, all primarily used for protection from enemy pursuit. The machine-gun sight in front of the pilot is also his bomb sight and, with no more complicated sighting equipment than that, he is able to make dive bombing as accurate as the U. S. Navy and its Curtis, O2C Hell Diver...
Built in the shape of an H, 2,500-bed Charity contains separate wings for Negroes and whites, luxurious dormitories, a gymnasium for interns, a solarium for doctors, a drug-manufacturing department, laundries, a printing shop. Each ward, a complete unit with special treatment rooms, bathrooms, doctor's office, nurses' cage and pantry, contains only twelve beds. The 50 operating rooms and delivery rooms are paved and walled in soft blue tile, contain unique, explosion-proof operating lamps which Dr. D'Aunoy designed. He also planned a pneumatic tube system between operating rooms and pathology department...
Swiftly social censers moved to block further error, taking the stand that "lawns need no decorating". Handed down "per order Chief Justice" were decisions regarding proper places to sunbathe. Henceforth inquisitive Harvard-men may expect to find vitamin D enthusiasts half nude--behind the observatory, wholly nude--the solarium...
...whose clock face is usually perched just above and in front of the official as he sits in his accustomed chair before the starboard rear observation window. Nevertheless, last week the Boston & Maine joined the current race to lure passengers with gimcracks when it installed a speedometer in the solarium of its crack, streamlined Flying Yankee. Developed by Waltham Watch Co., the instrument is actuated by a small electric generator connected to the car wheels. If it works without too much tinkering, pleases the public, B. & M. plans to install one in each de luxe day-coach on all through...