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Things look a bit brighter for the fencers. Strong performances were turned in this weekend by captain Tom Musliner and Dan Isaacson in the foil, and Bob Damos and Ed Garrick in the saber. All went undefeated in the victory over Bradford Durfee...
MARGUERITE KENNEDY DE GARRICK...
...David Garrick (1717-79), English actor: "Oh, dear...
Architect Louis Sullivan was the father of the modern skyscraper, but the tallest structure he ever got to build was the 17-story Garrick Building on Randolph Street in Chicago's Loop. It was a theater topped by offices, and in its best days it was a masterpiece of soaring arches, spiraling staircases, and original, light-catching setbacks. But time has not been kind: as Randolph Street degenerated, the theater turned into a rundown movie house. Finally this year its owners, a subsidiary of the Balaban and Katz theater chain, decided to tear it down...
...result of a feverish crusade started by a 32-year-old architectural photographer named Richard Nickel, the case of the Garrick went before Cook County Superior Court. The ruling last week could well be a historic one for Americans concerned with saving landmarks. Judge Donald S. McKinlay went back to a 1954 U.S. Supreme Court decision that said in effect: the District of Columbia had the right to demolish a building if the building posed an esthetic threat. On the same principle, ruled Judge McKinlay, a city should have the right to preserve a building for esthetic reasons. The judge...