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...large bakery rooms is scented with the smell of warm bread, which pops and crackles invitingly in its great wire racks. Near the entrance looms a massive mixer, easily twice the height of the average man. Flour and other ingredients are sifted into a great mixing tub from a high funnel-shaped inlet and then kneaded by long-armed paddles...
...parents sent young Pétain through St. Cyr military academy, later left him a small fortune. He took on the prevailing St. Cyr color-reaction, royalism, distrust of politics. He also developed a love of off-tune brass bands, climbing trees, skipping rope, floating paper boats in a tub of water, watching animals...
Starting her working day in an 8:30 tub, Miss Beatty dictates for half an hour to one of the "angels" (secretaries) who handle her voluminous mail. At breakfast, she confers with staff members, collects ideas from Husband Bill, her No. 1 legman. Grabbing a cab at 10:30, she reaches the studio in time for a brief powwow with program guests. After the program she goes to teas, movies, dinners, the theater, often gets home past midnight and soaks up more information by reading in bed until...
Allow me a derisive guffaw at the perversity of the esthetic editors of TIME, FORTUNE and the ARCHITECTURAL FORUM. After years of tub-thumping in favor of prefabricated housing they don't like the appearance of Carquinez Heights! Believe me, if one of the most sensitive artists in America today, I speak of "Bill" Wurster, cannot satisfy the champions of demountables with a bang-up job like the Vallejo project there must be something basically wrong with the theory. I studied the detail drawings and photos of this job very carefully and am at a loss to know...
Over one of Germany's powerful Zeesen transmitters last week plain Jane Anderson (TIME, Jan. 19) was going great guns. The middleaged, neurotic, American-born Axis tub thumper ("Lady Haw-Haw" to the British) was setting the U.S. short-wave audience straight on the Nazi food supply with a luscious description of a visit to a Berlin cocktail...