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Architect Breuer was chosen to design the new St. John's by a six-man committee of monks, appointed by Abbot Baldwin Dworschak, who went about their undertaking with Benedictine thoroughness. After 18 months of regular meetings, they invited a group of top architects to come to Collegeville and talk things over. Breuer's selection was based almost as much on human values as on technical ones. Said Abbot Baldwin: "He struck us as being not only an outstanding architect, but as a simple, straightforward, sincere and rather humble person...
...whole project may cost about $8,000,000, and since the sum is far beyond St. John's likely early means, its completion may be far in the future. But Abbot Baldwin and his black-cowled brothers are in no mad rush. "After all," he said last week, "what are a few generations to the Benedictines...
Crimson sailors travel around southern New England this weekend competing against everyone from Notre Dame to Abbot Academy...
...freshmen who get to sail with the ladies. Wheaton College, as well as Abbot, will take part in an Undecagonal meet at Wakefield with the Yardlings and eight other teams. Bill Henry, Mike Kenney, Pete Luster, and Tim Townsend are the freshman skippers...
...Broun '10, Kenneth Macgowan '11, Robert Benchley '12, Brooks Atkinson '18 and John Mason Brown '23; designers Lee Simonson '09, Robert Edmund Junes '10 and Donald Oenslager '23; actors and actresses Walter Hampden '97, Osgood Perkins '14 and Dorothy Sands; and producers Winthrop Ames '95, Maurice Werthheim '06, George Abbot '12, Richard Aldrich '27 and Theresa Hilburn...