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...just as the 40-year emergence of the strip seems complete, a pair of books renews the scholarly pursuit. Philip Langdon's Orange Roofs, Golden Arches (Knopf; $30) is an exhaustive social history of chain restaurants. Googie: fifties coffee shop architecture (Chronicle Books; $12.95) is a more polemical and quirky work. Author Alan Hess, a California architect, takes as his nostalgic prototype a Sunset Boulevard snack shop built in 1949 and zigzags through a hot-rod-and-chili-dog architectural tour that celebrates old McDonald's outlets, car washes and Las Vegas casinos--all the pushy, flimsy '50s buildings that...
...indeed, Langdon and Hess make reasonable cases that fast-food restaurant design is the snappiest, purest expression of the American Zeitgeist at mid-century: architecture as billboard advertising, billboard advertising as architecture. Both authors note that the germs of the modern strip were the work of serious architects, not anonymous commercial draftsmen...
...April 11, 1775, President Samuel Langdon sent Hancock a letter threatening to replace him, but the treasurer did not respond. A series of follow-up letters went similarly answered, and the Corporation sent a tutor to look for Hancock, then in hiding during the war. He failed and Hancock remained it office until his death, when he left 16,000 pounds for money he had University accounts and a personal debt to Harvard of 1495 pounds, for money he had unscrupulously borrowed...
...fund was initiated with a grant from Boston businessman Langdon T. Clay '50 as part of Harvard's ongoing fund drive, the Campaign...
...categories as arrests, court cases and resignations have been added. The column's length, however, has remained about the same, as have the extreme compression of the form and the sometimes ingenious portmanteau descriptives. Dinah Shore was once referred to as a "scorch singer," Silent Film Comic Harry Langdon as a "deadpantomimer," and Mickey Rooney as a "Hardy family perennial." No longer in use are the TIME-coined neologisms that once peppered the section, such as "socialite," "tennist" (tennis player) and the myriad variations on "cinemactor/tress," such as "cinecomedienne," "cinemoppet" and "cinemingenue...