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...nothing short of scandalous to award the prize to Eero Saarinen's Chapel at M.I.T. for "the strongest statement in terms of structure and space enclosure for its purpose." Although the interior has many praiseworthy features, the exterior is one of the chief eyesores of Cambridge--an ugly brick storage tank with foully proportioned arches set into it (see cut). Compare with it, for example, the Mexico City church erected several years earlier and shown in the other cut. The basic idea (which Saarinen thought original with him) is the same, but how much more skillfully and tastefully the details...
Four More Years? Hagerty's most striking feat was in getting out word of the operation's successful completion. Outside the hospital, newsmen were still watching the vague figures of the surgeons through a glass brick window when White House Transportation Officer Dewey Long summoned them inside to the conference room. Hagerty was on the phone from the operating floor, ready to dictate the results through Long. Newsmen-whose papers in some cases were holding their presses for the bulletin-had the news at 4:55 a.m., three minutes after the operation ended, and 16 minutes before...
...week's end Venice's biennial roundup of contemporary painting and sculpture, due to open this week, had installed only a quarter of the nearly 6,000 paintings and sculptures sent in from 34 countries (including Russia for the first time since 1934). Only at the prim brick American Pavilion did contentment reign. Brisk, brusque Katharine Kuh, curator of modern painting at Chicago's Art Institute, had the U.S. contribution all up and dusted. It made a striking show...
...feet farther down the street and crashed into a third car, stopped, walked back to survey the first scene of contact, returned and backed out into a fourth car, shifted into forward gear, struck his wife and bounced her off the hood, inflicting three fractures, careened into a brick building, was hospitalized with his wife for multiple bruises...
...Omaha's red brick Fontenelle Hotel last week, the nation's No. 2 hotel chain concluded the second biggest deal in U.S. hotel history. Using a dime-store pen, Sheraton Corp.'s President Ernest Henderson and Vice President Robert L. Moore signed an agreement to buy the 22-hotel Eppley chain, largest and oldest personally owned hotel group in the U.S. Its 22 properties in six states range from Pittsburgh's 1,500-room William Penn to the 123-room Tallcorn in Marshalltown, Iowa. Price: $30 million. (In the biggest deal, Conrad Hilton paid $78 million...