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Domes & Nooks. Coaches, diners and "tavern cars" will be equipped with the General Motors designed "Vista Dome" (TIME, June 18)-a glass-enclosed elevated dome that protrudes 18 inches above the car roof. Under the unbreakable, heat-resisting Thermo-pane glass, 24 passengers will have an unobstructed view of the Rockies, can sun bathe in soft lounge seats. For Dome dining under the stars dumbwaiters will lift meals from the kitchen below. After dinner, tables on the lower floor of the diners can be dropped into slots, the space cleared for dancing...
Duffy's Tavern (Paramount) brings to the screen radio's Ed Gardner & friends - and bolsters them with a star-spangled variety show...
There is a friendly, disreputable air about much that goes on in Duffy's Tavern. Victor Moore, in handling everything from a glass of brandy to a paintbrush, is a virtuoso of the fumble. Ed Gardner, who rather suggests a ravaged Randolph Scott, is as agreeable to see as he is to hear. His specialty is straight verbal misfires such as "satisfied public accountant," his proud claim to sexual "maggotism" and his wistful reference to his Harvard days ("good old Eli"). But he also delivers a permanent description of a moneybag: "If he can't take it with...
...afternoon last week Clarence Howe, who has worked long & hard as wartime Munitions Minister, squeezed in a round of golf at the Lambton Golf & Country Club (near Toronto). He dropped his indifferent golfing before the 18th hole, headed for the locker room, showered, then went to the club tavern for pie and coffee. Before he finished, six men barged...
...tavern conference began on a strained, embarrassed note; soon tempers flared, voices grew loud. Finally, Howe boiled, told the union men to "get the hell out of here." Then he clamped his hat on his head, stomped away...