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...President became a patient performer in their hands. He put on rubber boots, waded in his favorite pool, cast his fly again & again. The crowd and the photographers' cries for "more action'' scared the trout away but the presidential fly whisked neatly to & fro, caught no trees or brushes. Then the President acted out a homely role on the lawn before his cabin. He propped a book open on his knee, played with his dogs, strolled about. Mrs. Hoover brought out her knitting. Changing to riding breeches, the President had his horse Billy brought up from...
...Governor Eugene Meyer of the Federal Reserve Board, big New York banks combined again last week under the leadership of President Mortimer Norton Buckner of the Clearing House Association to launch the long-debated $50,000,000 Commodities Finance Corp. (TIME, Aug. 15). Though dubbed "the commodity pool" in its rumor stage, C. F. C. will purchase no commodities. It will conduct a financing business along strict banking lines. Banker Buckner defined its scope as "facilitating the financing of the purchase, carrying, and orderly marketing ... of agricultural and other commodities." Actual operations will be handled by two subsidiaries, one engaging...
...traditional house is an artificed cave. The traditional bathtub is an artificed pool. Buckminster Fuller has replaced these "feudal and finite" properties with what he calls "services." Dwellers in the dymaxion house will bathe with an airpressure hose squirting 90% air, 10% water, no soap, in a compressed fog over their skin. Little water, no bathtub, no faucets or sinks, will be needed. Toilets will be dry, a machine converting sewage into methane gas to provide the house's light and power. Air will be conditioned, making bedclothes unnecessary. All machinery will fit into the central duraluminum mast...
From the huge Olympic Coliseum, with its three flagpoles, 105,000 seats and Olympic torch, the scene of the Xth Olympiad shifted last week to the 50-metre Olympic swimming pool, where 10,000 spectators with Japanese parasols sat in a small concrete stadium looking down at a narrow block of pale green water...
Water Polo. First riot of the Xth Olympiad occurred after the first match in the water polo tournament, when Germany had beaten Brazil, 7 to 3. Angered by the decisions of the referee, huge Bela Komjadi of Hungary, two of the Brazilians crawled out of the pool and attacked him. Their teammates helped them. The Germans helped Referee Komjadi. Dr. Leo Donath of Hungary, secretary of the International Swimming Federation, tried to stop the fight. Police arrived and whacked him as well as the battling contestants. Bruised and bitter, Dr. Donath left the arena. Said Referee Komjadi: "The Brazilians have...