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...camp of modern architecture and was ready to fight for it. He was sure he was on the winning side. Gothic and neoclassic skyscrapers were dying out in Manhattan; Hood had just designed the starkly simple Daily News Building and the equally simple-if startlingly pea-green-McGraw-Hill Building. Harrison and his partner Corbett were among the architects chosen by the Rockefellers to work on the designs for the most ambitious project of the century...
Pappy has no truck with razzle-dazzle football; his style of play is a combination of plain percentages and horse sense. In a new book called This Game of Football (McGraw-Hill; $4), Pappy gives away his trade secret: winning teams are the product of practice, sweat and Spartan training...
...Sequatchie, Tenn. Towering (6 ft.-4 in.) "Shufflin' Phil" scrawled an offer to go fishing in the middle of 1922's hot pennant race if the St. Louis Cardinals would make it worth his while. "I don't want to see this guy [Giants Manager John McGraw] win the pennant . . ."he wrote Cardinal Outfielder Leslie Mann. "Send the goods to my house ... and I will go home on the next train." Douglas was fired; the Giants won anyhow...
...once a Berlin psychiatrist, now directs the Child Center at Washington's Catholic University. Father James H. VanderVeldt, a Dutch Franciscan and a Catholic University professor, formerly taught psychology in Rome; in 1931 he opened the church's first experimental-psychology laboratory there. In Psychiatry and Catholicism (McGraw-Hill; $6), the authors try to explain each to the other. With a preface by Washington's Archbishop Patrick A. O'Boyle, their book is the most authoritative and, in a guarded way, the friendliest Catholic statement about psychiatry to appear...
Narrow Margin--At the Pilgrim Stars Charles McGraw and Jaquilene White in a thriller that rivals Alfred Hitchcok's best...