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...Meaning of Wealth." Before the 52nd Street house was sold. Plant called in Architect Guy Lowell, supervising architect of Boston's Museum of Fine Arts, to design the new mansion, including a library of Jacobean carved-oak paneling (see cut). To furnish the town house, Antique Dealer Arthur Vernay ransacked his own collection, sent scouts throughout Europe. The result has borne well the test of time. For the jade, Chinese porcelains, 18th-century French furniture, paneling, fixtures. Royal Beauvais tapestries by Jean-Baptiste Oudry, paintings by Watteau, Gainsborough, Lawrence, Romney and Raeburn. the current market will pay back...
...former NATO commander in Europe, brainy General Alfred M. Gruenther, 57, dropped in at the White House to pay his respects to Old Friend Dwight D. Eisenhower. On Al Gruenther's Distinguished Service Medal Ike pinned a third Oak Leaf Cluster, wished him well in his forthcoming presidency of the American Red Cross. That afternoon Gruenther mistily watched a "retreat parade" in his honor, then met some 600 friends who gave him a farewell handshake in observance of his 38-year military career that ends this week...
Tucked away in the Cumberland foothills of East Tennessee, Clinton* is an improbable place for racial crisis. Its sons fought for the North in the Civil War (Clinton has voted Republican virtually ever since). About 800 Clintonians work for Union Carbide Nuclear Co. at nearby Oak Ridge, where, as at other federal enclaves, the schools have been successfully integrated. Most of Clinton's 48 Negro families own their own homes and have long been accepted as solid, sober members of a solid, sober (and Baptist-dry) community...
...executive offices in more than 40 U.S. and Canadian cities, the Guild found that the typical layout is "about as inviting as the inside of a boxcar, features drab beige throughout, vinyl tile floor, Venetian-blind tapes of a too-dark shade of brown. The massive oak furniture is awkward, outmoded and impractical. No draperies. Several unimportant pictures hang from the wall as if they had landed there by accident. Desk accessories coordinate with nothing. About the best that can be said is that it is clean and the furniture is in good repair...
Atomic Light. A radioactive flashlight is being sold by Boston's New England Nuclear Corp. The small metal cylinder (about i in. in diameter, 1½ in. long) has a plastic lens at one end, contains a long-lasting tritium "battery" produced at Oak Ridge. It will take twelve years for 'the light to dimmish 50%. Though its radioactivity is low, only persons licensed by the AEC can buy it, but the maker estimates that when the instrument is made available to the public the price will be about...