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...only $1,750,000. Working with Dr. Frederick C. Elliott, overall director of the Texas Medical Center, he picked a firm of Houston architects (MacKie & Kamrath) that had never designed a hospital and so had no preconceived ideas. Then he called in as consultant a Chicago firm (Schmidt, Garden & Erikson) that had built 150 of them. One of the innovations concerned the facade. The architects found that they could save and have a stronger wall if they faced it with about an inch of pink Georgia marble. Thanks to the rosy marble, Houstonians speak affectionately of the Anderson Hospital...
...Leonard F. Erikson, 56, vice president of Manhattan's McCann-Erickson advertising agency, was picked as head of the State Department's Voice of America at $13,000 a year. Erikson (no kin to the late Alfred W. Erickson, one of the agency's founders) graduated from the University of Wisconsin (1920) and Harvard's Graduate School of Business Administration, was sales manager for CBS before he joined McCann-Erickson as boss of its radio & TV department...
...Erikson, embalmer and owner of the primate, uses Makoko to demonstrate prosection methods. The anatomist also is making a private study of the gorilla from an evolutionary standpoint...
...beast, originally from the Belgian Congo, gained considerable notoriety last June when he fell in a moat at his Bronx Zoo home and promptly drowned. After rescue efforts of his keeper failed to revive him, Makoko was put on ice and Dr. Erikson was hastily summoned...
...professor rushed to New York, embalmed the gorilla immediately, and then shipped him to Cambridge as an addition to his large primate collection. Handled with utmost care, the 12 year old animal is still in excellent condition, and Dr. Erikson feels confident that he will be able to prosect his monster indefinitely...