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...Munch, Milton (Boston); United Fruit Co. Board Chairman George P. Gardner Jr., Brookline (Boston); Biographer Richard Ellman, Evanston (Chicago); Ex-Baseballer Bob Feller, Gates Mills (Cleveland); Pediatrician-Author Benjamin Spock, Cleveland Heights (Cleveland); Martin Co. (aircraft) Chairman George Bunk.er, Englewood (Denver); Hockey Star Gordie Howe, Lathrup Village (Detroit); Architect Eero Saarinen, Bloomfield Hills (Detroit) ; Kansas City Star President Roy Roberts, Mission Hills (Kansas City); Douglas Aircraft Chairman Donald Douglas Sr., Rolling Hills (Los Angeles); Caltech President Lee A. Du-Bridge, Pasadena (Los Angeles); Architect Wallace K. Harrison, Huntington, L.I. (New York); Composers Gian Carlo Menotti and Samuel Barber, Mt. Kisco...
...roof can shelter all but the tail sections of six jetliners at one time. Pan Am's is the fourth individual terminal to be opened at Idlewild. American, United and Eastern are already in operation. By 1962 the North-west-Braniff-Northeast building will be up. So will Eero Saarinen's spectacular gull-like TWA terminal. Altogether, U.S. and foreign airlines-which once scorned Idlewild as too far from Manhattan-are now putting $150 million into the Terminal City building program, giving Idlewild a World's Fair look...
Last week Lou Kahn found himself unhappily pinpointed in the limelight. At the National Institute of Arts and Letters, Eero Saarinen awarded Kahn the institute's prized Brunner. Award as "a man who has used his superior gifts to tread the hard path of discovery rather than the easy way to success." A few days earlier Kahn had been present at the dedication of the $3,000,000 Alfred Newton Richards Medical Research Building on the University of Pennsylvania campus, about which Architect Philip Johnson predicts, "When this is finished, Kahn will be world-famous...
When Architect Eero Saarinen was invited to submit plans for Washington's new Dulles International Airport, he set out on a countrywide tour of existing air terminals. He came back with one overriding impression: his feet hurt. The average passenger, he observed, "already has a walking distance of 900 feet from the point of entering the terminal to actually boarding his plane." Saarinen's solution: replace the customary "finger-style" airport design, which rays out to distant plane positions, with a compact structure served by a system of "mobile lounges." Instead of boarding their planes directly, passengers will...
Some of the modern architect's best customers are the U.S.'s expanding schools and colleges. But one of his most difficult problems is how to blend modern architecture with the traditional style enshrined in many an ivy-covered wall. Last week Eero Saarinen, probably the most versatile of living architects, unveiled the best solution...