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...word city hall usually evokes visions of a dingy interior with a minimum of window space and a maximum of official smell behind a façade that may combine the styles of the Taj Mahal, the Erechtheum and Ralph Adams Cram Gothic. But when Fresno (Calif.) citizens planned their city hall they decided to break with U.S. tradition. They decided that a city hall has no need of domes, pillars, Corinthian capitals or musty interiors copied from Roman baths. Last week U.S. architects were hailing the result of Fresno's decision...
...produced by Edward Gross) is a tall tale of boardinghouse life in Tucson, Ariz. a generation ago. A lot of it is less boardinghouse than monkey house, less chicken on Sunday than ham and corn during the week. Staking everything on laughs, Playwrights Epstein leap the boarderline of probability, cram the house with all kinds of weirdies and whacks, from a whiskey-soared giantess who yodels to a nymphomaniac who tears after Indians...
...Scholarly Lieut. Colonel Borth delivered groceries as a boy, remembered how he used to crush "large firm rolls of toilet paper" flat so he could cram them into pasteboard cartons...
...Examples (curtailed or closed for the duration): Harvard's Wolf School; Yale's Milford; Princeton's Hun; Washington, D.C.'s Roudybush Foreign Service School, which crams many candidates for U.S. posts; the New York State bar examination cram given for 29 years by famed Manhattan attorney Harold R. Medina and taken by many graduates of the best U.S. law schools...
Last week, with only two weeks to go before the opening game and only three returning letter men on her squad, Bell's coach cut straight through center. Toting a brand-new notebook, she rushed up to Penn State for a three-day cram session with Coach Bob Higgins (system: the Warner modified - single wing back and unbalanced line...