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...work, Yale was used to getting buildings from their name architects quite unlike the buildings they were usually known for. Philip Johnson lives in a severe bachelor glass house in Connecticut, the kind of place beloved by House Beautiful. But in designing for Yale a new science complex on Pierson-Sage Square, Johnson surprised everyone by designing a turreted architecture of burnt umber brick and purplish Longmeadow stone that reflects the sullen soil of the area. So far he has finished the $3,500,000 Kline Geology Laboratory, a medieval keep whose slit windows admit daylight willy-nilly-and which...
...know, chapter by chapter. I kept saying no, and she got more and more upset. Finally, just to make her happy, I told her that the Doreen Ellsworth story was autobiographical. So she says, 'I knew that was autobiographical--did you ever love a girl the way Richard Pierson loved Doreen Ellsworth?' And, you know, then she started in. What can you do? Some people just want to believe things very badly...
Born. To Edwina Sandys Dixon, 23, daughter of Britain's Commonwealth Relations Secretary Duncan Sandys, granddaughter of Sir Winston Churchill, and Piers Dixon, 33, banker son of Sir Pierson Dixon, British Ambassador to France: their first child, a boy; in London...
Leverett House, which was beaten out for the House championship when they dropped a 22 to 8 decision to Eliot last week, will face Timothy Dwight at 2 p.m. on the Freshman field. In other 2 p.m. contests, Lowell will vie with Pierson on Field 1; Kirkland meets Calhoun on Field 2; and Quincy faces Branford at Brown and Nichols School...
...current Brussels safari, the Lord Privy Seal* hand-picked a high-echelon band of astute and experienced civil servants. Headed by Sir Pierson Dixon, Britain's ambassador in Paris, they are known as "the Flying Knights" because of their titles and breathless commuting between capitals. With their support, the Lord Privy Seal has won a degree of respect from the Eurocrats that is rarely granted British officials on the Continent. Round the horseshoe table in the faceless slab that houses Belgium's Foreign Ministry on Brussels' Rue des Quatre Bras, they soon discovered that Heath...