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...never make the living room big enough," says Wright, "the fireplace important enough, or the sense of relationship between exterior, interior and environment close enough. . . ." One new Wright house, designed for a California cliff top, seems to rear up no feet out of the ocean, like the cliff it stands...
Married. Igor ("Ghighi") Loiewski-Cassini, 32, squealy Hearst chitchatterer ("Cholly Knickerbocker"); and Elizabeth Darrah Waters, 20, stately blonde ex-model; he for the second time (his first was Washington Times-Herald Chitchatterer Austine "Bootsie" McDonnell), she for the first; in Sea Cliff...
Hazardous No. 8. At Pebble Beach, the hole that players feared most and the crowd most enjoyed was No. 8. It is a 425-yd. dogleg running around the edge of a steep cliff, with hazards to the right & left, and about 135 yards of salt water to go over. Lloyd Mangrum, playing the kind of golf that made him 1946's U.S. Open Champion, got his par. His final score for the 54 holes: 205, ten under par. Said Mangrum, collecting the $2,000 first prize:* "This is my week off. I'm playing here...
Tuckerman Ravine on Mount Washington is the fastest and steopest skiing in the East. The headwall of Tuckerman, a cliff padded with over 200 feet of snow, has a maximum slope of above 45 degrees and is the scene of the annual Inferno races. This is strictly spring corn snow skiing, although the ravine basin and the Sherburn trail to the base of Washington are good all winter...
...Blunden's novel of Moscow and Muscovites in their grim winters of war and political despair (A Room on the Route). William Wister Haines's Command Decision, a tense story of hard choices at an A.A.F. headquarters, was made into a hit play on Broadway. The Steeper Cliff, David Davidson's novel of a search for the meaning of intellectual courage in postwar Germany, was the best fictional attempt to treat of the problems of peace...