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...decorative art be truly creative." So said last week famed Paul Theodore Frankl* of the Frankl Galleries, Manhattan. Paul Theodore Frankl has designed "architectural" or "skyscraper" bookcases & dressing tables that tower in tiers, armchairs that are at once squat & graceful, a "step table" for books, and a "narrow chest of drawers" (5 ft. high, 8 in. wide, 12 in. deep). This furniture is intended for the smallish rooms of costly city flats. It is considered to be acceptable to the eye because "the exterior (skyscraper) architecture has developed a modern note of the most advanced sort...
Muscular Anesthesia. In rowdy secret society initiations the novice, standing rigidly erect, arms at sides, is made to inhale very deeply and hold his breath. As his face grows red and his eyes bulge, great arms glide around his chest, like brewers' clamps over a beer keg. Just as the initiant feels like the inflated frog of Aesop's fairy tale, the great arms squeeze; the victim drops heavily, rendered unconscious by muscular anesthesia. This initiation "stunt," Professor Arno Benedict Luckhardt of the University of Chicago reminded the Academy, is dangerous to a person with a weak heart. The sudden...
...potency by the time he died. Not so for James Boswell, who bequeathed to the world two important things: one, The Life of Samuel Johnson, a monument to the curiosity of the author and the conversation of the subject, admittedly the best biography in the world; the other a chest made of ebony, which was almost six feet long and stood five feet high on slim legs. Letters Boswell had received, letters he had written, notes and diaries and An Account of Corsica filled the chest...
...Chicago, one William Glauber and one Frederick Knauff, friends for years, gave each other black eyes. Reason: Mr. Knauff had a cold. Mr. Glauber, promising a cure, stuck large porous plasters on Mr. Knauff's chest, back, abdomen. Mr. Knauff got well. Then Mr. Glauber peeled off the plasters, peeling off also Mr. Knauff's means of livelihood in a circus, to wit, a tattooed portrait of Abraham Lincoln (chest); assorted tattooed landscapes, ships, anchors, Uncle Sams (abdomen); nude females, South Sea Islanders, palms, boats (back...
Brakes set with a long screech. Three men pointed black steel muzzles from their car at the lone pedestrian. Four bullets passed through Mr. O'Higgins' neck, one lodged in his chest, a sixth entered one ear and penetrated to the base of his brain. The motor car lurched, raced away...