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Steam heat is, in fact, the ideal climate for Mauldin's style of searing creativity. In an art that often uses a shovel instead of a rapier, a backslap instead of a boot, Mauldin, 39, wields the hottest editorial brush in the U.S. Full of caustic and rebellious passions, he boils over onto his drawing board with the scalding effect of a well-aimed spit of lava. "You've got to be a misanthrope in this business," says Mauldin. "A real son of a bitch. I'm touchy. I've got raw nerve ends...
After denouncing everybody else's skyscrapers, Frank Lloyd Wright in the latter days of his life wished to turn cities into grand parks surrounding a few mile-high office buildings that would lodge the city's entire work force. Each rapier-like 528-story building would have atomic-powered elevators, would accommodate 130,000 people. Philadelphia's Lou Kahn, dramatically ignoring the necessity of rectangular symmetry, modeled a skyscraper that suggests a tottering, concrete Erector set. Other projects offer radical new solutions for transportation and land use: Le Corbusier's plan for a road that...
...last week the two men had parlayed their baseball know-how into the managerial success stories of the 1960 season. In the National League, onetime Second Baseman Daniel Edward Murtaugh, 42, was manager of the pennant-bound Pittsburgh Pirates (TIME, June 13). In the American League, onetime Catcher Paul Rapier Richards, 51, was manager of the pennant-contending Baltimore Orioles (TIME, June 6)-win, lose or draw the year's most exciting team. Taken together, Murtaugh and Richards show how savvy baseball pros use contrasting techniques to build winning clubs...
Baseball's freshest sight in the still youthful 1960 season is a juvenile band of Baltimore Orioles. The man most re sponsible for the fact that the Orioles are fluttering giddily around the top of the American League: Manager Paul Rapier Richards, 51, a sharp-featured, sharp-thinking Texan with a rare talent for developing young players. Last week, while kids with autograph books were besieging his long-forlorn Orioles in the lobby of Manhattan's Hotel Roosevelt, Richards ordered a breakfast of prune juice, dry cereal and coffee in suite 727-729 and leaned back to talk...
...parson Evans, who "makes fritters of English," comes off well in the hands of Richard Waring. And Morris Carnovsky is marvelously crotchety as Caius, the French physician, who is normally "abusing of God's patience and the King's English." Carnovsky has introduced some side-splitting bits with a rapier; and indeed the entire Evans-Caius duel scene is brilliantly staged. Jack Bittner rants vigorously as the Host of the Garter Inn with an excessive penchant for the adjective "bully." Frederic Warriner is aptly idiotic and cringing as the suitor Slender. And nine-year-old Mark Carson acquits himself admirably...