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...years (1916-54) at Columbia University, wrote prolifically, edited (1952) the scholarly, encyclopedic Forms and Functions of Twen tieth-Century Architecture, capped his career by winning a Pulitzer Prize (1956) for his biography of Benjamin Latrobe, the U.S.'s first professional architect; of a heart attack; in Beaufort, S.C. Architect Hamlin delivered Wrighteous judgments, called Los Angeles ("very bad Spanish architecture") the ugliest U.S. city, summed up New York: "One vast slum with oases ... for the wealthy...
Born. To Staff Sergeant Matthew Charles McKeon, 31, Marine drill instructor whose sentence for leading an unscheduled night march on which six recruits were drowned is under review (TIME, Aug. 13), and Elizabeth Evelyn Wood (Betty) McKeon, 28: a second daughter, third child; in Beaufort, S.C. Name: Bridget Alice. Weight...
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...Duke of Beaufort's houseparty was falling to pieces. Rain had kept the guests cooped up in Badminton Manor, champagne was running low, old friends were so bored with each other that they were reduced to a half-forgotten childhood game. Someone stretched a cord across one of the manor corridors, and, so the story goes, a couple of lackadaisical wine-bibbers discovered that they still had energy enough to stick a crest of goose quills into a champagne cork. They began to bat the cork back & forth across the cord with empty bottles. Suddenly the party came...
Last week, from five different countries, 200 energetic contestants traveled to Niagara Falls, N.Y. to try their hands at what is now a worldwide sport. But the badminton they played was a far cry from the impromptu pastime dreamed up by the Duke of Beaufort's friends. And as if to prove that the game is not the private property of English gentlemen any more, Eddie Choong, 23, a cat-quick little (5 ft. 4 in.) Malayan, bounded away with the American Badminton Association's singles championship...