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Rudolph's first major building was the $3,000,000 arts center for Wellesley College, completed in 1958. Trying to harmonize his building with the existing collegiate Gothic of the campus, Rudolph adapted the 15-ft. bay spaces and red brick of the older buildings, used an enameled sun screen to provide a functional equivalent to the richness of neo-Gothic stone tracery...
...Victorian Gothic corridors of London's Royal Courts of Justice last week, the well-dressed crowd pushed, shoved, and asked attendants: "Which way to the duchess? Which way to the countess?'' Of two aristocratic divorce cases being heard at the same time, many of the crowd were most interested in the 46-year-old Countess of Shrewsbury, whose husband the earl had sued her-and who in turn had sued her husband-for divorce on grounds of adultery. The scandal had fed the tabloids for weeks, but the real jolt in the case turned...
...other M.P.s in the Commonwealth -not in India or Ghana or far-off Tonga -would have put up so long with so many hallowed inconveniences. The Houses of Parliament, which grew out of Edward the Confessor's Palace of Westminster, sprawl over eight acres of Gothic mazes, including 1,100 rooms, eleven quadrangles and 100 staircases. But aside from Ministers and the Leader of the Opposition, not one of the 630 M.P.s has an office all his own-or even rates a permanent desk...
...colleges for Yale University, Saarinen (Yale '34) quickly discovered that the standard vernacular of modern architecture would not do. First, the site was odd and irregular. Furthermore, the new colleges would have to exist cheek by jowl with two of Yale's most determinedly pseudo-Gothic structures: the ten-story Payne Whitney Gymnasium and the Yale Graduate School. Talking with students, Saarinen discovered that undergraduates want their rooms to be as individual as possible, decided that the rooms should be "as random as those in an old inn rather than as standardized as those in a modern motel...
...development made the trip to New Haven important. For the visit gives us all a chance to renew our faith in Yale, to see that the boys are still freshly washed and pressed, still sing sentimental songs, believe in good fellowship. We hope that today's pilgrimage to the Gothic halls will reassure us that the old, solid collegiate virtues still flourish...