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...trailer, was greeted by pilgrims crowding around the "iron lung" and clamoring encouragement in many tongues. Thereafter pilgrims, reporters, priests, nuns watched Fred Snite eagerly, day after day, as he attended Masses. Few saw him, however, when twice he was taken from his respirator, wrapped in a towel, placed in a 7-by-3 ft. basin in a bathhouse, to which the healing waters of the grotto are piped. Each time Fred Snite lay in the icy water for half an hour (he can now breathe for an hour without mechanical...
Curious modern improvements await swimmers when they come in from the Park's 1,000-foot strand: automatic showers set off by photoelectric eyes; towel-less drying in warm air currents. A more immediate pleasure on opening day was afforded by about 5,000 square feet of interior murals done by WPA artists under the direction of many-minded Hilaire Hiler (pronounced Hillair Hyler), one of the wonder boys of modern decoration. A onetime saxophone player who drifted from the University of Pennsylvania to Berlin, from Berlin to Paris, Hiler fell to painting...
Only the rare guest gets an individual portrait. Highlights of the book are the portraits of Bemelmans' coworkers. Strict but sentimental Otto Brauhaus, the "Splendide's" manager, was an exception to the usual manager "whose face is like a towel on which everyone has wiped his hands." Otto used to say of his beloved primitive paintings: "Sometimes when I'm alone, I look at them, and they look at me, so brimidif, like this," and "he would look sideways out of his face, just like his primitives...
...School comedian started the evening going when he stepped to the platform and began to complain about his room in Hastings Hall. "I live at 51 Hastings," he said, "a room with adjoining towel. It's so small I have to go outside to change my mind, and, you know, we're so cramped that we've taught the dog to wag his tail up and down...
...smeared over the newly tabloid pages of the Herex. Staff men spirited them from one hotel room to another, grilled them with the help of a State fire marshal assigned by Governor Horner. Suspect Guerrieri posed for the Herex front page tipping an empty gasoline can over an old towel, to show "How It Was Done." While the Tribune frantically pursued Governor Horner across the State by telephone, the Herex strung out its scoop for two long days, finally delivered its "prisoners" to State's Attorney Courtney's office on the third. Immediately, Kolesiak repudiated his Herex "confession...