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Gilt-Edged Lilies. For amateur theatricals (often by Philadelphia's socialite Savoyards), Du Pont built an outdoor theater with 62-ft. stage, arboreal wings and a curtain that rises instead of falling after each act (a screen of water gushing upward from hidden fountains). Elsewhere, batteries of. fountains play in intricate patterns, illuminated at night by masses of colored floodlights-red, blue, green, flame, flesh pink and moonlight tones. The fountains can spray water at the rate of 840,000 gallons hourly; a single fountain, Old Faithful, shoots jets 140 feet high or fanning out 100 feet wide...
...similar richness of wording when she says: ". . . the lamp chimney around the urged-on lamp flame itself, spurting threads of itself and smoke stinkingly upward toward the ceiling, crimsonly stuttered inside the gloom it made like an evil tongue...
Mold & Wilt. A former Tennessee schoolteacher who got a Ph.D. from Harvard and became associate director of the Rockefeller-founded General Education Board. Edens has kept his two campuses (Gothic for men, Georgian for women) on a steady, upward course. He runs one of the top forestry schools in the nation, one of the ranking medical schools in the South. He has the 13th largest (1,150,000 volumes, 1,550,000 manuscripts) university library in the U.S., and though his law school is still trying to catch up, his flourishing divinity school is one of the South...
...probably up some more in January. Steel output, at 84% capacity, was the best in 14 months. With tension rising in the Far East, copper buyers scrambled to build their inventories. Last week producers jacked the price of copper by 3?, to 33? a lb., the first upward move in almost two years...
...seeping up around his face. Stefansson does not know how the Eskimos discovered the principle of warm-air capture, but he is sure they could not live in the Arctic without it. Their houses, whether of snow or earth, are built on the same principle. Their winter entrances slant upward, emerging through the floor. Air warmed by human bodies cannot escape, so it collects cozily under the thick, domed roof. Even when Arctic blizzards are blowing overhead, the body-heated igloo often keeps so warm that the Eskimos snug inside need wear no clothes...