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Died. William S. ("Pete") Newell, 75, shipbuilder and board chairman of the Bath (Me.) Iron Works Corp.; of a heart ailment; in Bath. During the shipbuilding slump of the '20s, Newell saved Bath's yards by rounding up fresh capital, later revolutionized the industry with the "sunken bathtub" method i.e., constructing ships in basins resembling drydocks from which they float out on completion...
Dunster and Lowell were to serve as the two extremes of the Plan. Lowell was given a raised dais and designated the "formal" house; Dunster was given its sunken garden and called the "democratic" house. This weak stab at immediate characterization never materialized. For when the other Houses opened the next year no such attempts were made to give them distinctive character. On September 30, 1930 the first two opened with 240 in Dunster and 300 in Lowell, all students living in singles and doubles...
...LIFE "MODERN," imported from the Orient, rests on "a curious fact that Americans connect lowered levels with luxury" (e.g., the sunken living room...
Many Americans now eat a few inches from the floor, "achieving less the look of Roman empresses than that of Bowery bums." The most bitter objector to this sunken state is "the girl whose chief distinction was the practice of sitting on the floor willy-nilly. Now with everyone doing it, all that's left for her is to lie spread-eagled under the matting or to sit on top of the room divider...
...give or take a pinch, that the movie public has been contentedly gargling since Mutiny on the Bounty (1935). There are Robert Taylor and the usual miniature whale, the mutiny on the blood-slopped foredeck, the bad harpooner called Silva. the nice native girl (Betta St. John) and the sunken treasure-in this case so palpably a ball bearing that audiences may wonder why all the actors believe it to be a large black pearl...