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Director Alfred Hitchcock, 56, has made some fine movies (The Lady Vanishes, Rear Window) and has managed to appear-fat and fleetingly-in at least one scene of nearly all of them. It remained for television to show that he is almost as good an actor as he is a director. On Alfred Hitchcock Presents (Sun. 9:30 p.m.. CBS), he is first seen in rumpled silhouette and then in full face as he gives a brief, usually acid outline of the night's mystery...
...international style pioneered by such men as France's Ferret and Le Corbusier. A prime example: Brazil's beehive-fronted Ministry of Education and Public Health in Rio de Janeiro, the work of a team of architects including Le Corbusier and his brilliant Brazilian disciple, Oscar Niemeyer. Historian Hitchcock calls it "still perhaps the finest single modern structure in Latin America...
...government buildings. In the major cities, new, skyscrapered skylines rise amidst one-and two-century-old slum clusters and rows of two-story stores. To portray a decade of tumultuous growth, Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art is currently displaying a photographic exhibit (assembled by Architecture Historian Henry-Russell Hitchcock) of 49 major building projects in ten Latin American countries and Puerto Rico. The display demonstrates that Latin American architects have not only developed a dramatic style of their own, but one ideally suited to their climate and way of life...
...Leaders. Brazil started early, and, thanks to booming São Paulo (TIME, Jan. 21, 1952), has the greatest number of distinguished buildings. But in recent years other countries have made giant strides. Historian Hitchcock labels Mexico's University City (TIME, Feb. 23, 1953) "the most spectacular extra-urban architectural entity of the North American continent." In about five years, the building boom has raised the height of typical buildings in Caracas, Venezuela from one to 20-odd stories. Such handsome buildings as the auditorium of Caracas' University City, with its high concrete vault filled with free-floating colored panels...
...Alfred Hitchcock Presents (Sun. 9:30 p.m., CBS) is the naked title of one of the new crime shows, and the movie director with the fine hand for murder and mayhem should be recommendation enough for TV fans of terror and torment. Unhappily, the best part of the show is Hitchcock's own sardonic introductions of the sponsor ("And now for that part of the program you have all been waiting for") and his description of his TV spot (a series of "situation tragedies"). But his play last week was the tired tale about the girl who turns...