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...windowless, concrete, ear-shaped main auditorium (capacity: 2,000) with as many curves as a Stradivarius. On the right wall hangs a cluster of boxes, below a buttonhook-shaped balcony that begins at orchestra level, becomes a raised balcony on the back wall. Says Co-Architect Adolf Abel: "The layout not only makes more sense acoustically but it helps to relax the audience...
...announcer as he introduced Bradley to the crowd. "You don't expect me to hit the ball after that, do you?" asked the general. The routine was the same for all players. Daytime: a round on the lovely, exclusive course at Cypress Point, a crack at the demanding layout of the Monterey Peninsula Country Club, and then, for the pairs with the 40 best 36-hole scores, a playoff at Pebble Beach. Evening: a round of the parties that brightened every clubhouse and properly stocked private home from Carmel to Cannery...
Died. William Addison Dwiggins, 76, top-ranking U.S. type designer, who produced the clean, legible Metro newspaper type and the Caledonia and Electra book faces, fulminated at U.S. banknote design: "It is worth its face in gold, but my God, what a face!", wrote the authoritative book, Layout in Advertising; after a stroke; in Hingham, Mass...
...survey of 1,000 executive offices in more than 40 U.S. and Canadian cities, the Guild found that the typical layout is "about as inviting as the inside of a boxcar, features drab beige throughout, vinyl tile floor, Venetian-blind tapes of a too-dark shade of brown. The massive oak furniture is awkward, outmoded and impractical. No draperies. Several unimportant pictures hang from the wall as if they had landed there by accident. Desk accessories coordinate with nothing. About the best that can be said is that it is clean and the furniture is in good repair...
...Complete Guide for Young Marrieds. The magazines sell from 15? to $1, take two months to produce in any quality, usually print at least 100,000 copies and live from three months to a year on the newsstands. Five publishers dominate the field, using small but expert editing and layout staffs and free-lance writers. Only the biggest, Manhattan's Fawcett Publications, Inc., which turns out 55 of a year's 200 one-shot titles, manages to sell advertising regularly in such ephemeral ventures...