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Q1 PQ 02 CO iMJ ff ,11 re? Slumber Center ft (Mock atop illiamsburgh Savings Bank, at 1 Hanson Place, is tallest four-Hided timepiece, according to Guinness Book of Kecords. Tallest Clock in World Keeps Brooklyn Ticking By BRYANT MASON Special purchase of fine mattresses. You save $40 per set! In the "Guinness Book of Records" the clock atop the Williamsburg Savings Bank, Brooklyn's highest building, is listed as the tallest four-sided clock in the world. i On i clear day, one can see the 512-foot, gilded dome tower Wins Scholarship To Catholic housing the clock from Beach, L.I., Coney Island, Newark and Jersey City. N.J.

The clock's faces are 27 feet across and their minute hands ara 12 feet, six inches long while their hour hands are nine feet long. Brooklynites, standing 430 feet below at street level, can Stearns Foster, Sealy extra irm or extra-firm Damaslunner- easily tell the time day or night. Bright L't at Night The hour and minute hands are illuminated and bright red neon lights set the clock off against the background of the sky. "We are timekeepers for an awful lot of people who use our clock to get to work," said "iltoliert W. Stober executive assistant at the bank-.

Rather than listen to their radios or use their wristwatches, Stiber explained, people will look up at the four-sided clock from their windows or as they rush to catch a Long Island Railroad train or BMT subway. The bank is at 1 Hanson Place, in the center of Brooklyn's transportation hub, where Flatbush and Atlantic Aves. cross. Depend on It spring mattress. YOUR CHOICE: Mary Morrison, daughter of Mr.

and Mrs. George Morrison of Brooklyn, has been awarded a scholarship at Catholic Uni versity in Washington to pur Vhenever the clock breaks down, as it did for several hiurs Twinsize mattress sue studies leading to a master's degree in Library science. Miss ice on the arms broke one of Morrison earned a BA degree, last winter when the weight of or box spring gears, "our switchboard "lights up like a Christmas tree," Stober said. magna cum laude, from St. Francis College, Brooklyn, earlier this month.

In addition, she won the Brother McGarry Memorial Purse for excellence in English. Grace Meyer, a telephone operator at the bank for nine vears. knows how concerned each Reg. $86 each Krooklvnites and outlying com St strip surrounding the transportation "Hub," as it came to be known. But all those places are gone.

They started going in the early 60's when the city started tearing down buildings to make way muters can get when the clock stops. She has to tell callers why. Stober said the 45-year-old clock, installed when the building was constructed it. 1929. is serviced by three men.

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vvi Few Brooklynites are aware of all the work which woes io keeping the clock ticking the correct time. Most rf th longtime area residents, like Anthony Oaputo, manager the 2 1 hour Triangle Newstand at Times Plaza, Flatbush 'and Atlantic think of the clock as a useful addition to the community. It serves the community as a timeniece and a landmark for last Chamber Music Series at Church 3rd floor Slumber Genter The Blue Hill Quartet will perform string works by Haydn.r Brahms and Prokofiev today at 2:30 p.m. in the enclosed garden of St in the Viplage Church, 222 W. 11th St.

The concert opens a three-weekend chamber music series, with a garden party following each performance, contributions of $3 per concert or $7.50 for the series are as'ked. giving directions. More than-that, the clock tower of Indiana limestone and rainbow granite is also a symbol of a more vibrant era. That era lasted from the 20s through the 40s when the Atlantic Ave. terminal was th3 bitrest station on the Long Island Railroad.

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