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After listening to a recording which explains that the temple will not be used as a house of public worship but for ceremonies only, visitors see the baptismal font in the basement (stainless steel, supported, like the priests' washbasin in Solomon's Temple, by twelve brazen oxen). Then they visit the recorder's office, where
...Toycoon" Louis Marx is a pip. I have an anecdote that involves Mr. Marx: several years ago, at Vallauris, France, Irving Berlin and I met Picasso; he'd been making abstract statues-incorporating broken bits and pieces from his children's toys (one creation had a tin washbasin in its stone stomach and a toy propeller imbedded in its navel). We promised to send the children some new toys and asked Louis Marx to ship a few and bill us (which he never did). Santa Marx sent a huge crate of toys, but it took two years...
...sanitary age. The symbol of it is the water closet, the bathtub and the two-washbasin bathroom. If we don't watch out, they will have them on the mantelpiece of the future, exhibited in the parlor the way that pots and old kitchen utensils of the past...
Neighbors in his apartment house complained at the noisy, late parties he gave for his men friends. He was evicted as an "undesirable tenant" after one of his guests tore a washbasin off the wall, loosing streams of water which did $15,000 damage to the building. Harlow moved airily to an expensive room at the St. Moritz hotel...
Then Lyndon turned to the next phase of political life: getting elected. One day, in 1937, while visiting an uncle in Houston, Lyndon was standing at the bathroom door, chatting while his uncle shaved. Spread across the washbasin was a Houston newspaper, with headlines announcing the death of Representative James P. Buchanan of Johnson's district. Said his uncle: "You can succeed Buchanan...