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...that he was going to be something more than just the son of a famous father was the national competition for the St. Louis Jefferson National Expansion Memorial in 1948. The elder Saarinen submitted a formal monumental design; Eero's entry was an audacious, 590-ft. stainless-steel arch that looked like a giant, glistening croquet wicket-which he had conceived while bending a wire and wool pipe cleaner. A telegram announced Eliel the winner. The family broke out the traditional champagne to celebrate...
...Television Playhouse offered a soporific love story about an Army nurse and a wounded boy lieutenant; Studio One had a rambling farce that required a parcel of adults to pretend that they thought a coffee urn was a top-secret ballistic missile; Playwrights '56 went arch and arty about a British murder trial; Kraft TV Theater contributed a cops-and-robbers bit that depended on the excessive dumbness of its hero to keep it alive for 60 minutes...
After the war, he published The Age of Jackson, challenging the standard analysis of Jackson as the arch frontiersman, and reinterpreting the period with more emphasis on its intellectual values and the urban roots of its reform spirit. Though he is modest about the book's merits, it earned him a Pulitzer Prize for History at the age of twentyeight. Much of the book was written, a friend claims, with "one twin on each knee." Schlesinger still continues to do much of his work amid the clamor of his children, now increased to four...
...than the preceding one. Student shows, as a result, have increased both in quantity and in quality. The only major restrictions facing the theatrical groups are adequate facilities, which the house dining halls, abounding with inconveniences, obviously lack. Sanders Theatre cannot house shows demanding curtains, backdrops, or a proscenium arch, not to mention dressing rooms or lighting...
...staging, music accoustics, rehearsals, dressing rooms, and seating. Although present facilities suffice for Elizabethan or "off-Broadway" types of productions, they cannot accomodate most musicals and modern dramas. The Lowell House Players, for example, have been forced to obtain the talents of a construction agency to hold up their arch and scenery...