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Commercial: the Dorr-Oliver Building in Stamford, Connecticut, with handsome floating sculpture over the main facade. Religious: Temple Reyim in Newton, Massachusetts. Residential: the Beach House of L. W. Spear in Gloucester, Massachusetts, with a quasi-Japanese overhanging roof. Public Use: the Wellesley Free Library in Wellesley, Massachusetts...
...awarded Kahn the institute's prized Brunner. Award as "a man who has used his superior gifts to tread the hard path of discovery rather than the easy way to success." A few days earlier Kahn had been present at the dedication of the $3,000,000 Alfred Newton Richards Medical Research Building on the University of Pennsylvania campus, about which Architect Philip Johnson predicts, "When this is finished, Kahn will be world-famous...
Stepping to the podium at the University of Alaska in 1953, the commencement speaker made an eloquent plea: "Be bold!" Mining Engineer Ernest Newton Patty knew whereof he spoke. Apart from a first-rate mining school, which Patty himself had built up, the ill-equipped campus near Fairbanks was little more than a "moose college" for young Alaskans who lacked the brains or money to attend colleges Outside. Skeptics suggested that it might well be converted into a penal or mental institution...
...would probably be the first to arrive on the moon, said a paper-weary executive at San Diego's Convair-Astronautics plant, if it just climbed there on IBM cards. To combat the problem of swollen documents and varicose office memos, Convair-Astronautics Communications Manager Charles T. Newton circulated one of his own (which Convairites promptly proceeded to ignore). Excerpts...
...years that she lived in West Newton, Mass., no one was ever sure just what Mrs. William J. Gunn was up to. Day after day she and her husband would go off on one of their mysterious drives. Even after he died, she carried on those expeditions alone. She seemed to have plenty of money, and the occasional visitor to her home, which she_ kept surrounded by two fences, could catch a glimpse of what she spent it on-Chinese bric-a-brac, 18th century books, and antique card cases that she had persuaded her amenable husband to adopt...