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Sixty-seven-year-old Sir Harry Lauder, Scottish vaudeville comedian, slipped and fell in the bathroom of his Strathaven home, banged his face, bumped his thigh...
...mirror which will not blur in a steamy bathroom...
Imported from Belgian Congo, Jiggs was brought up by Mrs. Jacqueline Gentry to eat at the table with the family, to use the bathroom, to ride in an auto, to play with the children next door. One thing he refused to do, however: sleep in a blanketed bed. One night last fortnight he slept outdoors in a storm, three days later died of pneumonia. Paramount planned (but failed) to send a delegation of famed actors to watch Jiggs buried in his silk-lined coffin. A Christian Science funeral service was read at his grave...
When he hit on his bathroom solution of Fermat's equation, Krieger at once cabled to Göttingen asking whether the 100,000-mark prize was still there. Back came the answer: "Preis besteht noch" (Prize still stands). Krieger doubted, however, that Adolf Hitler would allow the money to leave Germany, especially since the claimant was conspicuously non-Aryan. A matter which he apparently overlooked was that the prize is offered for proof of the theorem, whereas his solution, if valid, would constitute disproof...
...herewith prints a photograph of the house in Madison, Wis., de-signed for Herbert Jacobs by Architect Wright. L-shaped, it stands with its back to the street corner on an acre lot. The short arm of the L is a big living room, the angle contains kitchen and bathroom, the long arm a hall, two bedrooms and a study. All the rooms face inward, opening tall windows on a garden space. A "carport," roofed and enclosed on two sides, saved money on a garage. About $400 was saved by omitting radiators and heating the house by steam pipes...