An eagle-eyed observer, who chanced to be strolling along East Sixty-eighth street yesterday afternoon glanced skyward and to his horror and consternation noticed what he believed to be the Hitler swastika freshly painted on the chimney of the New York Hospital.
Running to a phone booth he managed to gasp the news over the wire to the press. A sleuth was assigned to the scene of the alleged outrage.
After some skillful inquiries a reporter learned that the swastika was not a recent painting, or the result of some Nazi vandal’s suppressed art desires coming to the fore. Rather, he discovered that the emblem was a design built into the chimney when the New York Hospital was erected.
Coolidge Abbot of Boston, Mass., the architect who drew the plans for this building some four or five years ago, adopted this design. It has no architectural significance as a chimney marker.
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