Word: alls
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Brazil's booming industrial center of Sâo Paulo (pop. 3,650,000) likes to boast of itself as the locomotive that pulls all the other Brazilian states. Ten years ago Industrialist Francisco ("Cicillo") Matarazzo Sobrinho* decided it was high time Sâo Paulo got up enough steam to become...
BRIGHTEST star among the bright young architects of the 1930s was a dour-looking, dynamic Finn named Alvar Aalto. His TB sanatorium at Paimio, Finland, with its cantilevered decks, was a landmark in the new international style. Almost singlehanded he had made wood a "modern material," used it in a...
At the age of 61, Aalto remains a prickly individualist who drinks hard, works all hours of the day and night. Once while designing Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Baker House in 1947, he turned out the whole staff at midnight, for three hours paced the office floor without...
Return of the Pros. The Los Angeles Dodgers had moved in an aura of Hollywood make-believe all season long. Too many experiments were working out too well. Brought up from Spokane, a gutty little Negro shortstop named Maury Wills turned into a fielding flash. Pulled off the bench, boyish...
In the best-two-out-of-three playoffs with the Braves this week, the Dodgers match their hard-pressed luck against a team that many baseball writers rated the world's best at season's start. Win or lose, the Dodgers were amazed to be there at all...