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...ever since his parents in Jackson, Miss., would not let him hitchhike to the New York World's Fair in 1939. He has collected a stack of material-postcards, folders and samples-on world's fairs dating back to the first one in London's Crystal Palace in 1851. Another of his packrat collections of oddities inspired his recent book, The Best Remaining Seats (TIME, Dec. 8, 1961). a recall of the gilded movie palaces of the 1920s...
...Scott W. Johnson, of Kirkland and Minneapolis, Minn.; William , of Leverett House and Hull; V. Zentgraf, of Lowell House and , Pa.; James R. Ullyot, of House and St. Paul, Minn.; and Crystal, of Winthrop House...
...impressions, characters, experiences. Iguana emerged from a 1940 trip to Acapulco. By 1946, it was a short story. By 1959, it was a one-act play, produced at a theater festival in Spoleto, Italy. Four separate versions followed, and to compare them is to watch sand turning into Baccarat crystal. Says Williams: "It takes five or six years to use something out of life. It's lurking in the unconscious- it finds its meaning there." Essentially, Williams has been chosen by his subjects...
...London's Crystal Palace Exhibition of the Works of Industry of All Nations...
Amidst the brocade and crystal furnishings of Manhattan's St. Regis Hotel, Pioneer Modern Architect Walter Gropius, 78, stood up to receive the second Kaufmann International Design Award, a tax-free $20,000, for his "achievement in design education" while founder and director of Germany's austerely functional Bauhaus. Gropius cast a wry glance at most modern buildings, said, "It seems completely futile to inject quality into buildings and goods which are created only for their short entertainment value." What was needed in the U.S., said Gropius, was a movement like Britain's "Anti-Uglies," irate architecture...