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MORE NEWS ABOUT THAT SKYSCRAPER

AN OFFICE ONE MILE HIGH

WILL HOLD 130,000 PEOPLE, 15,000 CARS

Snowdon

3561 feet

Empire State 1200 feet.

"Kiffe! Power

984 feet.

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The "Illinois" St. Pouls Sato, feet

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This project for the "Illinois" skyscraper, ONE MILE IN HEIGHT, by the 83-year-old" architect Frank Lloyd Wright, is sensational even in the country of sensational buildings.

It is planned for Chicago and will overtop by thostNANČN of feet the highest buildings in the world-

Its structure is based on the principle of the stability of the tripod-pressures upon any side are at once resisted by the other two, and it will be more airplane in character tinn the usual heavy building- It is auicipated that there will be no sway even at the very peak of the building.

Stainless steel

The exterior will be of stainless steel. Alomic poWET will drive 56 its engaging ratchet tracks, not suspended as in ordinary lifts. They will serve live divisions of 100 storeys each.

Special through-service lifts will rise at a speed of a mile a minute, Escalators will serve the bottom live floors. Together with the lifts they should fill or empty the entire population of 130,000 within the hour.

100 helicopters

Covered parking for 15,000 carn will be provided, together with two deeks for 50 helicopters each. The rapler-like bulking, stabbing into the upper atmosphere, will gleam the polished silver. All vertical members will he of gold-coloured motul

Architecture in this buliding soars in fact into the realms of aeronautical engineering- Problems up lo now unknown will be solved by revolutionary materials methods which will decide the shape of things to coine— London Express Service.

FOR SEEING 'GUYS

AND DOLLS'

ASKED

TO LEAVE

Interesting

Stories

All Parts Of The

AN INVISIBLE MAN

(HE WEIGHS 16 STONE)

IF THE CHAIR HOLDS OUT.......

The way kahlad the lavicžie Man * 2246,

TESTS

YOUR

CHAIRS

BY SITTING

DOWN

300 TIMES

World

How was the gure of 300 renched? At first we tested to destruction. Then We found that after 300 times there was no change, not even if we continued up to two or three thousnud.”

"The, seal

Furniture that passes this and other teats worked out by the institute of the Furniture Development Councils Yo- warded with the seat of the Institute a kite. In all, '05 por cent of the furniture made in this country entries this mark.

Many British manu- facturers have set up their own "testing rigs." Inspectora of the instituto visit them to test prototypes of the furni- turo, and at least one In every two hundred of the articles that come off the production line.

It might be a dining-chair. "Don't forgot," Bald Мг Maberly, "that when you alt down, you drop directly on to tho chair for the Inst two or threo inches." He was about to demonstrate, then noticed that the chair lacked a set. But a minchine can reprodúce the notion of sitting to test the chair,

Meanwhile, on another "ŕack" a bedstend was being pulled npart In various directlons at once. How does |autique furniture stand up to treatment? I was told that

tested "for fun--and some

If a 16st. man goes to buy a fireside some period pieces had been habang in on the thats 100 then to the the wing chair this autumn, how many times should of them, the solld Jacobean he try sitting down on it to find out if furniture, for example, came

through perfectly well." it will fast?

Ill-fitting

tu á marital Motion's wear.

The film-makers fall

SCHOOL for three Cleopatras

Eastbourne.

Three weeks before the

end of his final term

THAT

has

ELEGANT MARGARET, FIERY ANNA AND SHAPELY GINA

more

This is not a riddle for the 11-plus scholarship class. It is a question asked and answered in a disused garage in Mayfair, where the British Standards Institute tests new furniture.

I wish the same could be sald, of the modern wardrobe I saw tested, Miserably thin, with l-atting shelves, It creaked under the weights

Using machines that look for the guillotine. This was like surplus stack from a where the 16-stone man that represented a normal medieval torture chamber-came Invisibly into the affair. load of clothen Ann lever they will be on show at the For suddenly a weight, repre- was pulled, to see how It Furniture Exhibition in the sonting him, was dropped on would respond to normal. New Year the Ibstitute's ta the seat of the chair. shifting about, the structure Inspectors prove that they Ubhoroically, the chair—It had cost £18-shuddered have to be cruel to furniture groaned.

near to collapse. That," to be kind to the public,

Bald Mr Maberly, "la Just the sort of abomination we. It groaned

are trying to kill,”;

This procedure is followed 100 times in dil. It represents, explained Mr Maberly, an I watched

AR a fireside executive of the Institute, a. at chair waited, like an aristo, normal lifetime's wear,

plosive Roman, Anna Magnani, Latest of the film beszi-throbs would be James, to be bitten by the culturo-bug Her Anthony Mason. He

thela Gregory Peck. I hear he would make Alm for 20th Century Fox in wants

Hamlet to play America's Barter Theatre, B place where he and a number of other actors began their CULTORIE..

And the third cholee for Cleopatra now being dis- Jess flery but cussed is the

Eastbourne College boy has NHAT other, earlier Ser- been asked to Jeave for

pent of the Nile, Cleo going to a cinema to see patra (who had a "Guys and Dolls," Two effective way thun Nasser Hollywood more boys who went with or dealing with Anthony), him have been gated.

suddenly become very J The nim was being shown in popular with film-makers. Three different versions of Anthony and Cleopatra are Although four films. maluly now being planned. And navenue, arc shown very

different, Cleo- term at the college, the temp-three very tution to sou "ruys and Dols" putras are boing lined up to ployed too much tor 17-year-old struggle with Anthony in Norman Beckett and his two their own inimitable way. friends.

i kustbourne for fortnight.

will

One of the boys borrowed u First of the Cleopatras is profect's bicycle. When the the very English, very elegant proiect missed 1, he informed Margaret Leighton. She, If นาย house master, MI K

present plans materialise, Hindley.

Later the profect found the machine outside a cinema and told Mr Hindley, who went there and waited for the throo boys to come out.

The next day all three were on the "mat" before headmaster Mr Michael Briey. Beckout was asked to "leave the school." The other two were gated.

All three boys belong to Pennell House.

Said Mr Birley, who was once nassistani master at Eton: "Beckett was not expelled. He was asked to leave the coilége, but was told that he was wei come to return any time os an old boy. Expulsion deprives a boy of that right."

Why Was Hockett asked 10 leave while the others were only gated? Said Mr Birley, "Bec- kett had been cautioned for other misdemeanours."

WON £4,200 CAR

the day he

London. amount of fair. For he is the lott winner of confest sponsored school 20-year-old Alex- by a London newspaper. ander Smith had but, one Now all that Alexander has dresim.... a car.

the to do is to learn to DRIVE.

But

chance of getting one - even. At his home in the little Filo a accond-hand car was a fishing village of Westgato, long way off. For Alexander Crail, he sold: was short of each.

"I'm dying to get behind the driving wheel, Today his dream has come

but it would be a crime to start true. The car is his....and it practising on a Bonly like this.

is the most exclusivo, che in Hritain.

In a few months' time he will Ankh his apprenticeship 00. a.

The cost: More than £4,200. jointe After that he will do. The name: Aston Marin Superleggen Spyder,

But all it comt Alexander was

a se thought and fortain

his National Bervice.

Alexander will receive, in ad dition to the car,

more than R700 in cash to run it,

Special Train For Birds

Hitthewda, la trand gesture,

uwesen "Albert Gróan.

wo of my best kinda.”

Clocomotiva, end tand

film to be made

SHOW NEWS

by THOMAS WISEMAN.

have Michael Redgravo as her more shapely serpent of the Anthony. The idea is for the Tiber Gina Lollobrigida. next year in Egyptian-born producer Ray- mond Hakim wants her to play potential Cleopatra. He is still looking fery, ex- for an Anthony,

Romo,

Second of the Cleopatras Is The

They are saying in Holly. wood that if Peck goes ahead with this plan he may be the only actor who both started and finished his career at the same theatre. I am inclined to tuke a less pessimistic view of thu venture.

Lost Sphinx

WHILE Dorothy Tutin has

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been in hospital some- has removed the sphinx from her old but faithful car, Bon. Her father writes to me to say: "Dorothy thynks it is a bad omen for Boffin to lose his aphynx."

MISS KERR TAKES THE ROAD BACK

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