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...Einstein steamed away aboard the Belgenland via Panama for San Diego, Calif, where Dr. Robert Andrews Millikan will meet them. Their California hostess will be a pleasant, greying woman who also knows what it is to be the wife of a famed scientist, Mrs. Robert Andrews Millikan. Born in Oak Park, Ill. she married Dr. Millikan 28 years ago. When she has time, she goes to meetings of Pasadena women's clubs, is active in the Pasadena Drama League, Community Playhouse Association. But of first importance to her is her husband's comfort and privacy which...
...Honor to Unhappy Courage" represents a large oak plank on the seashore through which has been thrust a beautifully painted silver spigot. Several auger holes are cut through the plank, and draped over one corner is a graceful wreath of morning glories...
...Homage to a Hostess" represents an other oak plank (with every grain minutely painted) from which hang a red-feathered trolling spoon and a string of speckled birds' eggs. Pinned to the plank is a sheet of blue notepaper with this message, in English...
...thing made this year's birthday parade different from all others. For the first time Russians were able to see the fane of Communism, the final, stone tomb of Nikolai Lenin. For years the "Communist saint" rested in a glass case under a truncated pyramid of weathered oak while state architects argued what form the permanent tomb should take...
...library will be a large Georgian room, panelled in oak. The dining hall and the large common room will also be finished in oak, and the small common room in pine.ARCHITECT'S CONCEPTION OF ELIOT HOUSE...