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...Façade. When Dr. Clark started trying to translate his dream hospital into reality, he could figure on an appropriation of 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...
...each) before the bell summoned them back for the second act of Barber of Seville. The setting was a knockout, bright and modern-looking, and the heroine-this time it was pretty Roberta Peters-sang a tricky song he had often heard on the radio, called Una Voce Poco Fa. After that there was a lot of fine singing and clowning. Fat Fernando Corena sat in a fat chair and glared suspiciously at everybody; tall, skinny Jerome Hines wore a crazy hat, sat in a tall, skinny chair, giving him arguments. The heroine seemed to have two other...
Walton: Viola Concerto (William Primrose; Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Sir Malcolm Sargent; Columbia). A work which, after Façade, is William Walton's most renowned, makes its tardy LP debut (it was written in 1929). Although its texture is slightly richer than modern tastes approve, this is a strong composition, ranging from pensive to jazzy to robust...
...oldtimers gave the new arrival a double-edged welcome. In full-page ads, Macy's hospitably showed an opening-day mob scene in front of the new Ohrbach's façade, then slyly suggested: "If you live through this, you're ready for Macy's." When spry old (69) Founder Nathan M. Ohrbach (rhymes with floor tack) unlocked the plate-glass doors, he barely got out of the way in time before the mob rushed in. By closing, 100,000 people had jammed into the new store, spent more than...
...find out what sort of psychological makeup they had before they developed the disease. They soon found that the average victim of breast or prostate cancer was unable to express such basic drives as anger, aggressiveness, or sexual impulses, suffered from an inner turmoil "covered over by a façade of pleasantness...