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City-bleached people flock to the seashore to get a coat of tan. Soon, perhaps, they may sit in their offices and bake to a brown that would shame a lifeguard. For Architect Hugh Ferriss plans skyscrapers of glass-the kind that permits health-giving ultraviolet rays to come in...
As dinner waxed, two dapper gentlemen at a nearby table saw Lord Birkenhead look upon the .wine of Madeira-and it was red. Then the dapper gentlemen began a spelling match, quite innocently, between themselves. Soon they, shrewd sharpers, were betting on each other's spelling prowess. When the...
Tank. The bear went over the mountain to see what he could see. Director of Tropical Research William Beebe, of the New York Zoological Society, wants to go under the mountain-the mile-high mountain of the deep sea-to see what can be seen by the light of luminous...
Pearl Maker. At the Sesquicentennial Exposition there is a $350,000 "pearl pagoda," put up to advertise the artificially cultivated pearls of Kokichi Mikimoto, 68, multimillionaire. He employs hundreds of men to insert a tiny particle of foreign matter within the shells of individual pearl oysters. Such a foreign body...
Off Norfolk, Va., one Walter Winner, fisherman, sighted a sea turtle basking on the surface of the ocean; silenced his motorboat, slipped up behind, leaped to the turtle's shell, seized its head to keep it from diving, rode upon its back until, tired, it could be trussed, towed...