Word: oakes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Says Owings: "It was six hundred feet long, six hundred feet high and six feet wide," and the statement was only a slight exaggeration. What gave special relish to the job for Nat Owings was that in 32 years of designing, including work on such large-scale projects as Oak Ridge, Tenn., Moroccan airbases, and Crown Zellerbach's new building in San Francisco (TIME, Sept. 7), he had never built a house...
Easing his magnificent paunch along the rows of vintage yellow-oak desks in the second-floor news room, Roberts deposits his 218 Ibs. in the corner he has occupied off and on since 1928. But soon he is up again and leaning over the news desk. "Anything big?" he asks, a question he repeats before every edition. By early afternoon, the basement presses roll out a newspaper that in Cowgill, Humansville, Farmersville, Fair Play, Peculiar, Knob Noster, Kansas City, and several hundred other Missouri-Kansas communities is familiar, reassuring-and powerful...
GLENN E. HANAFORD Oak Park...
...will be housed in each of the two new colleges. Their rooms, hardly any two of them similar, are variations on a basic polygonal plan, look out on courts and open passageways that Saarinen feels are "not unlike a small Italian hill-town street." The interiors, done in stone, oak and plaster, will be designed to suggest the scholar's study rather than the clubman's rumpus room...
Bottles in the Buttery. For prestige, each college will have its own tower. For conviviality, each will come equipped with cellar-type butteries around whose round oak tables students and masters can gather. "It is hoped," Saarinen added, "that television will be kept out of these rooms, so that they become centers of conversation and discussion rather than areas where people sit drugged by canned entertainment." As for the name "buttery," Saarinen made clear that he was not thinking of dairy products, pointedly cited the Oxford Dictionary derivation: "Buttery, sb. ME. (app. a. OF. boterie - bouteillerie:-late L. botaria...