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Population-wise, the city of the future may be little more than a glorified workroom, railroad station and parking lot-crowded by day, empty and echoing by night. Around the hollow center, circle on concentric circle, would lie the teeming suburbs. Beyond them, only the open farm land and the lonely lights of farmhouses, sprouting television antennas...
...spite of a lightning flash that skittered down some loose wires and across his basement workroom, freckled, 13-year-old Dick Jorgensen of Chevy Chase, Md. managed to put together a workable TV set one afternoon last week. He wasn't the first electronics-minded youngster to do it, but Dick gave the stunt a new wrinkle: he assembled his set entirely from spare parts scrounged out of refuse barrels behind TV repair shops. This week Dick was on the prowl again. "I'm building an oscilloscope,"* he explained, "and I still need a few parts...
...army truck corps, Martin du Gard conceived the idea of The Thibaults and reorganized his life to write it according to plan. The plan worked equally well on his country estate in Normandy or at his apartment in Nice. On Monday mornings he would disappear into his workroom; seldom reappear until Friday night...
...Whistles. Though many in the 80-man Dewey press corps did not yet really like the candidate, they had to admire his streamlined press relations. The text of each night's speech was Mimeographed by the morning before; coffee and beef sandwiches were at hand in every press workroom along the way. Press Secretary James C. Hagerty's motto was "Make it as easy as possible for them to get what they want...
...remark that she found Picasso's new things "beautiful, but I wonder what use one could make of them." Whatever their possible use, Picasso had obviously enjoyed making them. When night fell on the fair's opening day, Picasso turned smiling to an assistant in his factory workroom and said, "You know, Jules, I am happy here. I think I'll never leave...