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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...
Bishop Manning's first ambition is to tear down the reredos, a carved stone screen built behind the high altar in 1909. Removing it, he said, will make the west-east interior view "the longest unbroken vista in Christendom" (one-ninth of a mile). Such superlatives are characteristic of St. John's, which when finished will be the world's second biggest church (bigger: St. Peter's in the Vatican), and the biggest of Gothic design. Still to come (see cuts): the upper half of two west towers, one more transept, and part of another...
...travelers who like to watch the country go by, Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad announced a new "Vista Dome" car, to be put into operation next week on its diesel-powered "Zephyrs," running from Chicago to the Twin Cities, Denver and the West...
...three years knuckle-headed, know-it-all Fibber McGee has been larding his fun program with monthly propaganda plugs-about waste fats, car pools, etc. The funniest part is that the customers like it. Last week Fibber & Molly (Jim & Marion Jordan) pitched their 30th Government plug, a Wistful Vista bond rally; they also edged ahead of Bob Hope again in their neck-&-neck race for program popularity...
Died. Gilbert Patten ("Burt L. Standish"), 78, author-creator of famed fictional Hero Frank Merriwell, whose 1,236 marvelous paperbacked adventures thrilled millions of American boys at the turn of the century; of a heart attack; in Vista, Calif. Working on a salary (highest: $150 a week) for Publishers Street & Smith, Standish never received a royalty payment from the sale of 125,000,000 copies of his best-selling 5? thrillers...