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LAST week the words that Malvina L Reynolds used in her celebrated 1964 folk song* to describe her view of the standardized world of suburbia's "little boxes on the hillside" seemed to assume new relevance. Two reports commissioned by the Federal Government-one on urban and the other on suburban problems-indicated that suburbia is hardly a refuge for those seeking escape from the blight of U.S. cities. The problems that have all but consumed many urban areas-the crime waves, the racial ghettos, the inadequate schools, the intermittent near collapse of essential services and the harshness...
...press corps was roundly scooped. The Miami Spanish-language paper Diario Las Americas published the story first on Sunday, but was ignored. Next day, apparently from other sources, London's Financial Times carried the news, and in Tulsa, Okla., station KRMG got its own report from Washington Correspondent Malvina Stephenson, who was tipped by House Majority Leader Carl Albert. KRMG fed the story to the Indian Nations Network, an Oklahoma chain whose dissemination of the story finally got things moving in Washington...
...Died. Malvina Hoffman, 79, long America's foremost woman sculptor, a Rodin student whose deft-but-not-dar ing work used to be so popular that she was able to choose from a stream of lucrative commissions, most notably in 1930 when Chicago's Field Museum of Natural History asked her to portray all the races of mankind, a project that sent her around the world posing ethnic types from Senegal to the Solomons and resulted in 101 true-to-life bronze figures; of a heart attack; in Manhattan...
...parts of the country the building of a highway has about the same results upon vegetation and human structures as the passage of a tornado or the blast of an atom bomb," protests Critic Lewis Mumford, one of the foremost save-our-trees esthetes. In San Francisco, Folk Singer Malvina Reynolds became so angry with the California Highway Department that she wrote a song...
...have the damned American facility for making sketches," growled Sculptor Auguste Rodin. She also had a facility for making friends, so Malvina Hoffman, daughter of English-born Pianist Richard Hoffman, combined both, carved herself a career as a fashionable sculptor. Rodin, Gutzon Borglum, Ivan Mestrovic were her teachers; Mrs. E. H. Harriman was a patroness; and some of her best friends were subjects: Pianist-Statesman Ignace Paderewski, Dancer Anna Pavlova, Surgeon Harvey Cushing, Paleontologist Teilhard de Chardin. In addition to portraits of the wealthy and the famous, the indefatigable Malvina accepted commissions for the monument to English-American friendship...