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...family life of the Nation's First Familyman was in abeyance. For the last three weeks he has missed the evening movies in the big second-floor corridor in the White House. But he averaged three swims a week in the pool set between the Mansion and the Executive Offices...
Correspondents knew that the Department's policy makers would soon collect on the musty second-floor offices-and soon they arrived, Secretary Hull at n p.m., Jay Pierrepont Moffat (Chief of the European Division) in a dinner jacket and black tie, Assistant Secretary Berle to spend the night at his desk. Correspondents also knew that from U. S. diplomats abroad reports would come fast: ¶Dapper, high-strung, Harvard-bred Minister Gordon at The Hague (who had spent most of the two nights before telephoning Washington ) got through an early wire of warning at 2:50 a.m., reported...
...patient, pallbearer's air, stepped along the rubber mat of the White House entrance; the gleaming glass-&-bronze doors swung wide under the hands of the blue-uniformed Negro doorman. Hats & coats taken, Messrs. Hull and Welles stepped into the whirring little elevator, creaked up to the oval second-floor study where sat Franklin Roosevelt at the huge desk carved from timbers of the Resolute. There ended Welles's trip...
...solid, severe, sun-flooded plant, with 100 beds, complete X-ray and clinical facilities for 30,000 patients a year. As superintendent they chose a Negro real-estate agent and insurance salesman, bland, 35-year-old Albert W. Dent. When Mr. Dent moved his family and furniture into a second-floor ward, Flint-Goodridge had neither patients nor staff. Most Negroes thought a hospital a place to come and die in. Of the 35 Negro doctors in New Orleans, only about 20 were graduates of approved medical schools...
Philadelphia's second-floor galleries are a series of period rooms, christened the "Main Street of the Ages." They range from a medieval cloister to a Pennsylvania Dutch parlor. On the first floor are the supplementary study collections: ceramics, glass, textiles, laces, metals, ivories, etc. The period rooms are the museum's pride. One of Director Kimball's favorites is an English Tudor room from a hunting lodge of Henry VIII. Its donor, staid Publisher William L. McLean of the staid Philadelphia Bulletin, would turn in his grave if he could hear genial Fiske Kimball halt...