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...Wild Side. In Miami, 78-year-old Mrs. Mary Bloomfield Bayliss started across a street, wound up in court, was fined $2 for jaywalking, $100 for disorderly conduct and resisting arrest, $200 for slugging a policeman...
Last year, with funds from the book industry, Satenstein and a small group of colleagues started a national crusade to sell the reading habit. He organized the nonprofit Library Club of America, Inc. in Manhattan, hired Reading Specialist Frank Jennings of New Jersey's Bloomfield Junior High School to run it. Last fall the club began with experimental chapters in three of Manhattan's Lower East Side public schools. As the months passed, the movement spread to New Jersey, then started west. This week, after only a year of operation, the club has thousands of boys and girls...
Outwardly, Eero (pronounced arrow) Saarinen (rhymes with far-'n-then) looks like a country family doctor, dresses with the casualness of a young college prof, prefers to live clear of the cities, in the rolling countryside of Bloomfield Hills, Mich. (pop. 2,100), 18 miles from downtown Detroit. His headquarters is a simply constructed, often cluttered office shed he designed for himself, just two minutes' drive from his home over winding country roads. Even with an office staff of 43, Saarinen's is a small operation by comparison with the major U.S. architectural organizations, e.g., Skidmore, Owings...
...Study. As Saarinen's G.M. began going up, his marriage was washing out. The marital problem was discussed sympathetically in a story written by the New York Times's Associate Art Editor Aline B. Louchheim. "When he is in Bloomfield Hills," she wrote, "Saarinen works at the office until at least midnight . . . Unlike the elder Saarinen's studio-house, which kept the family working and playing together and was a convivial center for artists, actors and musicians, the younger Saarinens allocate social life primarily to their infrequent vacations . . . Very occasionally, in a musing, somewhat rueful tone, Eero...
...speeding car loaded with workers headed toward a mass of cursing, shouting men blocking the entrance to the Westinghouse lamp plant in Bloomfield, N.J. one morning last week. The car plowed through, knocking down a picket and two policemen. In nearby Edison, N.J. four men were injured as they tried to halt cars driving into the local Westinghouse plant. In Sharon, Pa. bricks flew, cars were damaged, and some pickets were hauled off to jail...