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...this juncture even fewer courageous souls, still including me, respectfully suggest a double feature at the U.T., evoking either scalding hauteur or tears from our dates. "How," they hiss, "can you ignore the excellent movies, some in English, which are now spellbinding the Boston cognoscenti? Do you expect me to tell the girls in the dorm that I went to the U.T.? And saw a double feature...
When Philip Hanson Hiss, 48, settled down to the real estate business in booming Sarasota, Fla. (pop. 45,000), he quickly established a reputation for being a damyankee with the loudest mouth around. What Hiss found to shout about was the school building program. Says he: "When I got the facts I went wild. Some of the schools were downright unsanitary. The rest rooms were so bad the kids wouldn't even go to the bathroom. And the curriculum was just as bad." In 1953 a friend jokingly challenged him to run for the school board. A self-styled...
...Crusader Hiss* first had to take his lumps. He got nine out-of-town architects to submit plans, saw them turned down cold because the plans smacked of "progressive education." But Hiss kept fighting for good design, pointed out that the cheapest schools run up the highest maintenance costs. The next year he won his first round. M.I.T. educated Architect William Zimmerman of Sarasota, 42, got the job of designing the twelve-classroom Brookside Junior High School. Zimmerman proceeded to divide his project into a campus of long, low-slung buildings attached to a central, triangular walk. He installed floor...
With four brand-new schools opened this term, Sarasota is sure it can top any community in the U.S. in school architecture. But for Yankee Hiss, biggest kick was to see truancy drastically cut. Says he proudly: "That's one happy result of decent architecture-the kids actually enjoy going to school...
...Alger Hiss is a third cousin...