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...Fifth Avenue front of the entire block is taken up by a graceful, perfectly oval 14-story building. It will contain ladies' shops, a banking floor, showrooms, a roof garden restaurant. Directly behind it the bleak, jagged slab of a 68-story tower shoots 675 ft. up into the air. Unadorned with radiator caps, Renaissance lanterns or mooring masts, it will be lower than either the Chrysler or Empire State buildings, will contain more useful space than either. Here will be the radio offices, 27 studios for broadcasting and television (which radio officials confidently expect to be commercially practicable...
Among the slight differences from previous editions will be appearance of a greater number and variety of cuts. The book will also contain a special editorial on the House Plan, which will probably be in a fairly light vein. The Board expects to choose a prominent Faculty member to whom the Red Book will be dedicated in about two weeks...
...will become a nucleus for the Physical Department, as it is being built as an extension to the Crufts Laboratory, and will be connected to Jefferson Laboratory by numerous passages, making it the center of one large Physical building. It will also be a center inasmuch as it will contain only studies, and private laboratories, in more than sufficient numbers to accommodate the Physical Faculty. There will be no classrooms, all of its four stories being devoted to private study and research...
...occasional flashing jewel on a wire but, as Mr. Morrison succeeds so well in doing, they should appear as integral and inseparable parts of the whole poem. It is true that the finest writing cannot be sustained and that a long poem can only hope to contain intermittent flashes of high lyric poetry. Nevertheless the narrative skill of the poet should lead one as artlessly as possible from one emotional height to the next...
Agents of the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals carry emergency kits wherever they go. To be ready for every accident which may befall an animal, the kits contain a horse blanket, a water pail, new bits, colic medicine, spirits of ammonia, iodine, tourniquets, adhesive tape, bandages, dusting powder for sores. But in winter if a cruelty preventer finds a horse scrambling for foothold on a slippery pavement, or one which has fallen on the ice, he is unable to help if he has not got some horse carpet-slippers. Last week the Society announced that...