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...gift from dime-store Heiress Barbara Hutton: the Georgian-Colonial-style pile she built in Regent's Park ten years ago. (". . . thoughtful of you," wrote Harry Truman to Heiress Hutton.) With it went 14 acres of lawn and garden. Among the conveniences: an indoor swimming pool, a gym, a servants' playroom, gold-plated bathroom taps, a nursery with two toilets...
...Hunter College, where UNO's delegates convened this week, was probably as good a place as any to bring a world problem. The echoing college gymnasium had been equipped with a false ceiling, a false floor, and paneled walls. Rose drapes and beige furniture had transformed the gym into a warmly decorated chamber with seats for 692 and perfect acoustics. Its council table held hidden microphones, its glassed-in balcony a gleaming mass of radio, motion picture and television equipment. It even had a specially built steel ballot box, equipped, against any eventuality, with a padlock...
...came as a pleasant surprise to Crimson rooters, who had been awed by the Fliers' imposing record and then badly scared when Gray sprained his ankle in last Tuesday's practice. But the Stahlmen apparently don't read the newspapers; undaunted by the fan-shaped backboards in the unfamiliar gym, they jumped to an early lead and were never headed...
Apparently oblivious to the twin acid-test games with Quonset and Boston University this week, Coach Floyd Stahl's Varsity quintet coasted to its sixth straight victory Saturday evening when it smothered Worcester Polytechnic Institute, 67 to 44, in the losers' gym...
Both teams are the revival of a long-dormant sport. The Tigers are somewhat worse off, however, because they lack adequate practice facilities; Baker Rink has been used as a temporary gymnasium because of the destruction by fire of the regular gym several years ago, and as a result hockey practice there has been confined to the few days that are cold enough for outdoor practice...