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...patient at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn, sported a scraggy white beard and a phony name. And, surprisingly, the nom de plumage lasted six weeks. Then last week the secret leaked out; the man back of the brush and calling himself Mr. George Saviers was Nobel Prizewinning Author Ernest Hemingway. After surviving war wounds, safari accidents and the assorted contusions of a life spent emulating the energetic characters in his own novels, Papa Hemingway, 61, had taken sick while on an Idaho hunting trip. Diagnosis: incipient diabetes complicated by high blood pressure...
Does this mean that every Harvard grad is suspect? Of course not. One wonders nevertheless why always, or almost always, we must apply to Harvard when the really important posts need filling. Is Harvard the only school that turns out experts? "The Wanderer," St. Paul, Minn...
Private Affluence. Over the years, affable Walter Heller has developed enough private affluence to afford a redwood four-level contemporary home in St. Paul, Minn, and a sporty Peugeot. Born in Buffalo of German immigrant parents, he graduated from Ohio's Oberlin College ('35), earned his doctorate at the University of Wisconsin six years later-just seconds after his wife got her Ph.D. in physiology. Rejected for military service, Heller joined the Treasury Department in 1942 as an economic consultant. After the war he went back to teaching but kept up his profitable sideline as an economist...
...American architecture. Today the right to use materials naturally and unadorned (as Wright would have them) has become common, accepted practice-seems indeed to have a special churchly appeal because of its ring of honesty. Architect Ralph Rapson boldly built St. Peter's Lutheran Church in Edina, Minn, in exposed steel and concrete, sheathing the exterior with aluminum. California Architect Mario Corbett designed his expressive Hope Lutheran Church in native woods, "unfinished," noted the minister, "the way God made them...
Technology, placed at the service of the church, makes possible more audacity in design. For the Benedictine monastery church of St. John's at Collegeville, Minn., Marcel Breuer has flung skyward a 112-ft.-high bell banner utilizing reinforced concrete and parabolic curves to erect a vertical cantilever, a form that Architect Breuer thinks as expressive of the mid-20th century as the Byzantine dome and Gothic arch and spire were of their times...