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...that it has since been copied the length and breadth of Europe. A decade later he was the architect Venice turned to for the plans of San Giorgio Maggiore, one of the most beautiful, classically ordered churches in the city. But it was the country villas, built for a merchant aristocracy that had recently discovered the bucolic life, that impressed succeeding generations...
...away as India and Korea. But as the months passed, things began to go wrong on the 75-acre campus. Last August 48 teachers and employees filed suit for $66,500 in unpaid salaries. Later the telephones were disconnected, the heat was shut off, and the local rug merchant came around to take back his carpeting. Last fall. $215,000 in debt, Belin filed a voluntary petition in bankruptcy. He explained that the Texas insurance companies that were to buy the bond issue were under investigation and that one was headed by Boy Wizard Ben-Jack Cage, who had been...
Temper Fidelis. In Brisbane, Australia, a Supreme Court granted a divorce to Firewood Merchant Arthur H. Trulock after he testified that his wife made him sleep in a stable, bandaged her head and screamed that he had beaten her, paraded naked in the yard, ruined his business by intercepting customer orders, poisoned his chickens and dogs, threw his meals...
Huggins might also have been describing his leading man. Born James Baumgarner in Norman, Okla., Garner grew up on a farm he "hated," rode two miles to school, on horseback, and took pot shots at odd jobs (traveling salesman, oilfield worker, the Merchant Marine), which he always quit "when I got bored." He drifted to Hollywood, where he helped his father lay carpets, modeled bathing suits for Jantzen, and returned to his home state to become the first Oklahoma draftee called into the Korean war. Four years later an old soda-jerk friend, Producer Paul Gregory, gave Garner...
...burst of klieg-lit euphoria, no less an authority than Producer and Play-tinker George Abbott once claimed that Author Shulman "seems distantly related to Dean Swift and Rabelais." This book proves that the feather merchant of U.S. humor is still keeping his distance...