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...whole architectural exhibition was housed in a specially designed "geodesic dome," an invention rated as "one of the 100 best industrial designs of the 20th century." The dome is part of the dymaxion theory created by Buckminster Fuller, who visited Leverett House a couple of months ago and lectured on his structural ideas. The aluminum skeleton of the Festival's dome is handsome enough; but since the dome is to be used in succeding years, a more aesthetically satisfactory covering ought to be procured...
Bartok: Music for String Instruments, Percussions and Celesta, and Frank Martin: Petite Symphonie Concertante (Albert Fuller, harpsichord; Gloria Agostini. harp; Mitchell Andrews, piano; Leopold Stokowski conducting; Capitol, mono and stereo). Both Composers Bartok and Martin anticipated the dreams of the stereo engineers by calling for strings divided in equal groups on either side of the conductor. The resulting spread of sound is interesting, but less so than Stokowski's fine performance. Even with a pickup orchestra, his Bartok glows with tonal colors as weird and arresting as an electrical storm, and his vigorous reading of Martin has a fine...
...Arthur Harrison Motley, 59, publisher-president of Parade magazine since 1946, was elected president of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, succeeding Edwin D. Canham, editor of the Christian Science Monitor, who will become chairman of the board. Garrulous, cigar-smoking "Red" Motley, who has sold zithers, Fuller brushes and cough syrup, is sometimes called one of the twelve best U.S. salesmen, has hiked Parade's circulation from 2,000,000 to nearly 10 million, its gross from $1,800,000 to $25 million. He considers it his duty in his new job "to get the membership off its goddam...
Married. Jenny Ann Lindstrom, 21, pink-cheeked, blue-eyed daughter of Ingrid Bergman and her first husband, Dr. Peter Lindstrom; and Fuller Earle Callaway III, 28, scion of a Georgia textile family; she for the first time, he for the second; on the spur of the moment, before a justice of the peace at Elko...
...News itself. Editor Martin S. Hayden, no Shriner, coolly advised the Shrine to stay out of his newsroom. Fraternal Editor Fuller, said Hayden, was "appointed to that position without prior consultation with the Imperial Potentate of the Shrine, and he will remain in that capacity regardless of imperial edict." In brief, the Shrine could go soak...