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WHEN we queried our San Francisco "bureau last week about the prize-winning firm of architects, Wurster, Bernardi & Emmons (see ART), the answer was already blueprinted. No two reporters were ever more on top of their story than Bureau Chief Richard Pollard and Correspondent Charles Mohr. Pollard, it turned out, had commissioned the firm to design a house for him on Belvedere Island in San Francisco Bay (construction starts this week). Mohr rents Architect Donn Emmons' own house, high on a hill above Mill Valley, overlooking the bay. Neither of these glasshouse enthusiasts had a stone to throw...
...Pollard's L-shaped dream house has a glass-walled living room with a view of lofty Mt. Tamalpais on one side and the incomparable San Francisco skyline on the other. Just outside is a bulkhead-type dock, flanked by a slip for Pollard's Penguin-class sailboat, in which he skims over the Belvedere lagoon...
Joel Landau, who is considered one of the most talented freshmen track stars in years, will have tough competition in the 50-yard dash, as he is running against Rod Richards, winner of the Pan-American Games last year, and Art Pollard, Penn State...
...race meant more to [Pollard] than it did to Howard," as Alexander tells it. "He'd just been married a few months before, [his wife] was carrying her first child, and he was flat broke. He'd get at least...
...pole, Seabiscuit moved, hugging the rail. A horse named Whichcee came over on Seabiscuit sharply. The crowd of 80,000 seemed to hold its breath. For an instant the four-legged horse and the two-legged boy, with four good legs between them, seemed certain to go down. But Pollard had learned the hard way-in the Western bull rings-and managed to ease off. The Biscuit drew off to win . . . from his own stablemate, Kayak II. But it wasn't over yet . . . For two minutes Pollard sat uncertainly on Seabiscuit. The red board that signaled a claim...