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Around the village of Bazouges-du-Désert, in Brittany, the apples grow big and sweet, and the Calvados (apple brandy) is a potable that is more in demand than the local water. In the town one morning last week the biggest bell in the church tower began to peal. It was a familiar but urgent tocsin of alarm. Government tax collectors had been sighted. The revenuers were looking for illegal Calvados and unlicensed stills...
Died. José Maria Sert, 69, muralist in the grandiose manner (his best known works adorn the League of Nations council chamber, the main lobby of Manhattan's RCA Building, the Waldorf-Astoria Sert Room); in Barcelona...
...building trades' obstructionism, public unconcern. But every once in a while poor, young prefabrication makes news. Last week the Government approved another prefabrication project for defense housing (it had already approved 40 others). The designers: U.S. Architect Paul Lester Wiener, Spain's Town Planner José Luis Sert...
...Under wartime restrictions the panels are made of celotex and wallboard. But they could be made of any material. Having no weight-carrying walls, the Wiener-Sert system uses only about 50% of the structural lumber and 80% of the metal permitted...
...Johnson's Sons O'Fun. Rosario & Antonio (only 21 and 20 respectively) danced as children in the market places of Seville and Granada, later toured Europe and South America, reached Manhattan two and a half years ago as a specialty act at the Waldorf-Astoria's Sert Room. Their flashing gyrations and intricate footwork so excited their first-night audience that it buried them in flowers. Known as Los Chavalillos Sevillanos ("The little kids from Seville"), first-cousins Rosario & Antonio now want to dance Carmen at the Metropolitan Opera...