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...brainchild of a 47-year-old architect named Marcel Breuer, who made himself known 24 years ago by inventing tubular steel chairs (in Germany's longtime Mecca of modern architects, the Bauhaus school of design). Architect Breuer came to the U.S. in 1937, taught for nine years at Harvard under his old Bauhaus boss, Walter Gropius, before setting up in business in Manhattan...
Armenian-born (in 1909), solemn little Der Harootian has carved 60 pieces since he switched from painting to sculpture nine years ago. He gets ideas for sculpture "from nature, from experiences, and from the Bible." While he never expects to get rich at it, Der Harootian considers sculpture "a beautiful profession. I wouldn't change it for anything in the world...
Bearded Conductor Ansermet, who had introduced and championed much of the music of his friend Igor Stravinsky, seemed to agree on some of it with an early Stravinsky critic, Claude Debussy, who had said to Ansermet years ago: "You know how much I admire Petrouchka, but The Rite of Spring disturbs me. It seems to me that Stravinsky is trying to make music out of something that is not music, just like the Germans . . . tried to make breakfasts out of sawdust...
There was nothing unusual about the 127 young men, except one thing. Their entire college education had consisted of studying the 100 Great Books. They were the alumni of tiny (present enrollment: 231) St. John's College in Annapolis, Md., where twelve years ago a former University of Chicago professor had started a small academic revolution...
Preserved In Oil. A month ago the American Chemical Society (meeting in smog-free San Francisco) heard the results of investigations carried out by the Stanford Research Institute and financed by the Western Oil & Gas Association. Said S.R.I.'s Paul L. Magill: elemental sulphur (i.e., not in compounds) might be to blame for eye irritation. So might some aldehydes. Another theory offered to the chemists: organic peroxides might be the tear-jerking villains. Dr. Lucien Dau-trebande, a Belgian smog expert, also working at S.R.I, with Oil & Gas funds, said that an eye irritant would be at least twice...