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...eyes of Trygve Lie, U.N. Secretary General, Harrison had special qualifications for top U.N. architect: he had helped build Rocke feller Center. Moreover, Har rison had been a member of the committee to bring the U.N. to Manhattan, and had assisted Rockefeller in his purchase and gift of the building site. Lie's first step was to name Harrison director of planning; then a consulting board of design was brought together from member nations. France sent brilliant, temperamental Le Corbusier (real name: Charles Edouard Jeanneret), famous for developing the city-in-a-park idea...
...dark day, indeed, when an educator the stature of President Conant of Har-imes up with the Blanshardites and nts to the rise of private and denominational schools as a menace to "our democratic unity" [TIME, April...
Answering Calls. Black-browed Bill Draper is one of that group of Wall Streeters-among them Forrestal, Stimson, Lovett, Patterson, McCloy and Har-riman-who, though usually Republican, have temporarily answered the call of Government whenever a problem needed a tough, practical administrator to straighten it out. Unlike some of them, Draper is no hereditary economic royalist. Born in New York City, the son of a dentist, he went to New York University (Class of '16), got his start in business at the National City Bank, later switched to Dillon, Read & Co., where his boss was Forrestal...
...worlds to conquer. Its fathers in a sense, did too well. Sure, there are slums left-but another Federal housing project can clean up the worst. Most of the fights in labor have simmered down to arguments around the bargaining table. Would-be heroes find themselves padded from har-and hope-like lunatics in a cell. In business, the tax structure, social security and pension plans promise to soften the blow of depression or personal misfortune-and forbid the building of new empires. In science there is the great corporation (or the Government) glad to furnish the expensive machinery...
Local college hockey practice and games at the Boston Garden and Arena may be greatly restricted next season according to indicatons which cropped up early in vacation period. But Carrell F. Getchell, business manager of the Har-Athletic Association, yesterday stated that he did not believe Harvard hockey would be affected by any new scheduling arrangement...