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...singularly drab Broadway theatrical season, last week's out-of-town tryouts promised some badly needed new color. Latest road reports...
Crusader Hiss* first had to take his lumps. He got nine out-of-town architects to submit plans, saw them turned down cold because the plans smacked of "progressive education." But Hiss kept fighting for good design, pointed out that the cheapest schools run up the highest maintenance costs. The next year he won his first round. M.I.T. educated Architect William Zimmerman of Sarasota, 42, got the job of designing the twelve-classroom Brookside Junior High School. Zimmerman proceeded to divide his project into a campus of long, low-slung buildings attached to a central, triangular walk. He installed floor...
...Time for Sergeants. In Norfolk, during a 24-hour period, a police accident investigator was injured in an accident en route to the scene of an accident, an out-of-town policeman was hurt in a collision, and a police hit-and-run investigator was hit by a hit-and-run driver...
Into Manhattan's apparel district last week hurried 2,795 out-of-town buyers, biggest number ever for a September week, all clamoring for quick delivery of new orders. Shelves were bare back home because the buyers had ordered cautiously last June (TIME, June 30), and the late summer surge cleaned out stocks. Retailers believe the pickup will grow stronger in the fourth quarter. The National Retail Merchants Association polled 225 members with total yearly sales of more than $2.5 billion, found that 52% expect second-half sales to rise an average of 4% over the year-ago level...
...tall, blunt-featured man whose interests have long ranged farther than the laboratory, Seaborg follows Cal teams on out-of-town trips, turns up at locker-room wakes-and also fights football professionalism. In 1957 he became a leading teacher-by-television in the science series programmed by San Francisco's hot-shot educational TV station, KQED. He recently helped overhaul math and science teaching in California public schools...