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Princeton and Dartmouth rolled over respectable Ivy football teams Saturday to prepare the way for this Saturday's showdown, which will determine the Ivy League championship and probably the Lambert Trophy for the East's outstanding team...
...world where only such freshly limned ladies as Fanny Hill and Fielding's Sophia Western were admitted to the discourse. Parisian culture was conducted far differently: it was the women who presided over the salons of serious talk. On Tuesdays, for example, the Marquise de Lambert was wont to entertain scientists in her stately salon, and on Wednesdays writers, artists and scholars. "She was one of the hundreds of gracious, cultured, civilized women who make the history of France the most fascinating story in the world...
...dream was nine years abuilding. The site, across from King Baudouin's royal palace, was select but far too small. To make room, 17 lots had to be bought, including one occupied by a new office building. Lambert agreed with city planners that the new palazzo should meld with the old-world architecture of the Palais Royale-yet he wanted a contemporary design. Finally, recalling his delight at seeing Manhattan's Lever House in 1952, the Yale-educated baron chose the U.S. firm of Skidmore, Owings and Merrill, whose partner in charge of design, Gordon Bunshaft, revolutionized...
...mother's idea," says Lambert, "was that this building should not only be an architectural landmark, but a cultural center as well." Though the Baroness Lambert died before it was completed, many of the art works are her choices. After S.O.M. designed interiors to enhance the paintings and sculptures, Bunshaft scurried about Europe in search of new acquisitions. From modest lithographs in the stenographers' offices to a massive Henry Moore sculpture in front of the bank, the collection now amounts to that of a middle-sized museum...
Bond & Bonnard. By far the most spectacular space within the building is the penthouse where the bachelor baron, as head of the house of Lambert, lives alone. Broad reception halls and dining rooms convert from business luncheons at noon to formal dinners at night. Strolling through suites studded with Giacometti's lean bronzes, through rooms where Picassos and Mirós alter nate with Bonnards and Rouaults into his big library, the baron likes to wink roguishly as he touches a hidden button that causes the book-lined wall to swing back, revealing a glass-sheathed bedroom with...