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Survival Formula. Like most magazines of ideas, the Atlantic has sunk at times into near-fatal lethargy. In Jubilee (Atlantic-Little, Brown), a 100th anniversary winnowing of Atlantica published this week, Editor Weeks says that his magazine has survived because it has "changed editors more frequently than any other magazine in our field." Says Weeks: "Whenever the circulation began to sag, a younger mind was brought...
...many other ways for writers and thinkers to express themselves. But the privately owned monthly (major shareholder: Mrs. Marion D. Strachan of Groton, Mass.) has prospered, increased advertising revenue 100% and doubled circulation (to 241,520) under Weeks and his editorial staff of 8. And its 268-page, 100th anniversary edition, typographically redesigned and filled with original contributions by some of the world's best-known writers (for one example, see box), is proof that the Atlantic is still, in its editor's words, "a living tradition...
After a week of banquets, speeches and plaque dedications, a Presbyterian minister led his congregation in a special service commemorating the 100th anniversary of the founding of their church. The week-long observance might not have been remarkable except for the rank of some of those who took part, e.g., U.S. Ambassador to France Amory Houghton, and for the church's location: 65 Quai d'Orsay, Paris. Cabled the President of the U.S.: CONGRATULATIONS AND BEST WISHES AS YOU ENTER YOUR SECOND CENTURY OF SERVICE...
...Century of New England Architecture" was a special exhibition presented in cooperation with the American Institute of Architects on the occasion of their 100th anniversary. Arranged by Norman Fletcher, it included 32 large panels of photographs and descriptive commentaries of representative milestones (some no longer extant) in New England architecture, including Harvard's Sever Hall (by H.H. Richardson), Lowell House (by Coolidge, Shepley, Bulfinch & Abbott), and a proposed new city plan for Spring-field, Mass. by students in the Harvard Graduate School of Design. Much of the excellent photography in the exhibit was done by the renowned Samuel Chamberlain (which...
CELEBRATING its 100th anniversary in Washington this week, the American Institute of Architects got down to a five-day series of speeches, panels and discussion groups on the past and future of U.S. architecture. Looking back over the past 100 years, a photographic exhibit of some 200 black-and-white photographs singled out 65 high points of U.S. building, from Richard Upjohn's 1853 Victorian Wyman Villa to Mies van der Rohe's glass-and-steel Crown Hall, built last year at the Illinois Institute of Technology (TIME, July 2). Looking to the future, the A.I.A. also presented...