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Born. To Sandra Burns, 29, adopted daughter of Comedian George Burns and the late Oracle Allen, and Stephen Luckman, 29, real estate specialist for his father's thriving architectural firm, Charles Luckman Associates: their first child, a daughter; in Los Angeles...
UNITED STATES. Charles Luckman designed a massive blue-green beauty that sits like a big square donut on four pylons. The movies inside are a little less impressive. Voyage to America depicts waves of immigrants hitting the shores, a Cineramic ride glides past a 130-screen montage of U.S. history, and a narrator tells of some problematic feats ("You didn't like the mountains, so you reared them up in skyscrapers...
...stops appreciatively on the massive, floating box-and-cloister of Charles Luckman's United States pavilion, and disapprovingly on Bell Telephone's flying wing, which looks more like a big hunk of sedimentary rock than an airfoil. The three-acre building that houses General Motors' Futurama ends in one gigantic tail fin, which may be good as advertising but is ridiculous as architecture. The boldest structure at the fair is Architect Philip Johnson's New York State pavilion: 16 tremendous columns support an elliptical roof of colored plastics that is larger than a football field...
...mostly a municipal matter today, but they are more popular than ever. Of the 30 largest cities in the U.S. only two do not have at least one zoo (Minneapolis and Newark). Recently Los Angeles announced plans for a new $6,600,000 zoo designed by Architect Charles Luckman. Indianapolis has just opened a twelve-acre, $800,000 children's zoo as a mere preliminary to a 38-acre main zoo to be added within the next four years...
...Baylor's Don Trull ("a football genius"). Even the Ivy is blooming: up on Manhattan's Morningside Heights, Coach Buff Donelli is touting Junior Archie Roberts as the best quarterback in Columbia's history-better than Gene Rossides or Paul Governali, better even than Sid Luckman...