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...specifically labeled a resort area but spattered with the second homes of Bostonians and sometimes New Yorkers is the whole gently mountainous area of Southern Vermont and New Hampshire. Typical is the so-called Monadnock Region, with its cluster of unchanged and unchanging New England towns ?Peterboro, Dublin, Hancock, Jaffrey. Those with homes in the area include Chicago Newspaper Scion Marshall Field III, Harlow Shapley, famed Harvard astronomer, Edwin Land, inventor of the Polaroid camera...
Died. George Allen Hancock, 89, California oilman and philanthropist, who inherited a 3,000-acre ranch in 1883, discovered the famed La Brea tar pits full of prehistoric remains while digging for oil (which he also found), made a fortune from his wells and the sale of property for what is now Los Angeles' Wilshire district, later gave $7,000,000 to the University of Southern California; of a heart attack; in Santa Maria, Calif...
Simon's workday is so individual and changeable that he has no routine in the usual sense. He rises between 6 and 7 a.m. in his house in the Hancock Park section of Los Angeles, begins the day's first round of telephone calls over a leisurely breakfast of tea, toast and fruit. For Simon, the telephone is a compulsive device: he has four unlisted telephones at home, three more in his blue-carpeted office at Fullerton...
...Treatment. A Texas-born Annapolis graduate (class of '28), Raborn started out in World War II as an aviator, later became executive officer of the flattop Hancock. When a kamikaze pilot plowed into the Hancock's flight deck off the coast of Japan in April 1945, Raborn got the deck patched up in four hours - in time to permit the carrier's planes to land safely from a mission. He won a Silver Star for his effort...
Designed by Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, Hancock Center will taper to less than half-size at the top, stand on splayed steel legs, and jut out from Chicago's skyline like an enormous, glass-enclosed oil derrick. But far more revolutionary than its façade will be its double-duty interior plan. From the 43rd floor down, it is an ordinary office building, complete with seven floors of ramp-access parking. But from the 44th floor up, it turns into an apartment house with its own indoor swimming pool, enclosed shopping promenade and a topfloor restaurant...