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...author of the book is Cranston Jones, a senior editor of TIME, who, in the five years he wrote for the ART section, made TIME the leading reporter on architecture outside the professional magazines. Though Jones's bibliography is impressive, his best material comes from conversations he had with the architects...
This is TIME'S fourth award from the A.I.A. in five years, others having come to us for past cover stories on Architects Eero Saarinen and Edward D. Stone, both written by Cranston Jones, and honorable mention for excellence of our architectural coverage. TIME prints more stories and more pictures about architecture than any other general magazine, believing in the impact and interest of good design and wishing there was more...
...being written these days and many ambitious projects are under way to re-create the cataclysmic events of a century ago. TIME chose instead to observe the occasion with drawings made at the time. A showing at the National Gallery of Art in Washington provided the opportunity. Associate Editor Cranston Jones picked 50 examples from the show, from which TIME'S final choices were made, and Press Editor John Koffend, working from a supermarket cart full of old books and magazines, gathered the story of those early precursors of picture journalism, the 30 hardy Special Artists of the Civil...
ADAM EHLERT Cranston...
Rhode Island, a statewide self-criticism meeting yielded money from the legislature for special programs: calculus in Cumberland High School, Russian in Cranston High School, the M.I.T. physics course in East Providence High School. ¶ English composition, a top Conant priority, is getting overdue attention. Main problem: the teacher shortage. To produce one student theme a week. Conant suggested that no English teacher should handle more than 100 students. But correcting 100 themes at ten minutes each takes 17 hours of work-2½ hours seven nights a week. Chicago would need 330 more teachers, adding...