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...another story with the office building on stilts. Although Harvard has no overt interests, no designs on the strip of land that Sullivan has chosen for his brainchild, it does and should have a strong, civic interest. What problems the building will or will not pose is irrelevant here. It is significant only that the project will alter the face of the Square considerably, and that Sullivan's suggestion came first...
...brainchild of Thomas M. Payette, a 28-year-old architect, and Charles Kirkwood, a 27-year-old member of the Coast Guard, it is almost a direct answer to repeated pleas for more local housing. It has received no official endorsement from the University, however, although the project is in line with Harvard's own policy of vertical expansion...
This year U.S. corporations plan to spend 10.7% more for development of new products and processes, according to an American Management Association survey. The legendary starving inventor, trying in vain to get a hearing for his brainchild, is no more; he can hardly get any inventing done today for all the eager customers beating a pathway to his door, or corporations trying to hire him. Last week in Los Angeles, as in many another U.S. city, a task force set up by the Chamber of Commerce was out hunting down new inventions, forearmed with a list of manufacturers anxious...
Just Crazy. The dakkochan is the brainchild of Yoshihiro Suda, 27, planning chief for Japan's toymaking Tsukudaya Co. Last February Suda began experimenting with a U.S. made plastic-and-cardboard eye that appears to wink whenever the angle at which light hits it is changed. Suda placed the come-hither eye in a 12-in. doll made of black sheet plastic inflated with air. Besides its stubby, clinging arms, the dakkochan boasts ring-shaped ears, a red doughnut mouth and a plastic grass skirt. Girl dakkochans can be told from boy dakkochans by the fact that the girls...
...exhibit bore the ambitious title of "Photography in the Fine Arts," and was the brainchild of Ivan Dmitri, a onetime etcher who switched to commercial photography when etching lost to the camera in the 1930s. Dmitri decided that most museums would not bother with the serious photographer, and galleries were not interested in showing or selling his wares. What photographers needed, Dmitri argued, was someone to screen out the best from the millions of pictures taken each year...