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...Wild West sagas, Civil War exploits. But by citizenship and temperament she remained forever England. She drank Scotch whisky, disguised modesty with a tart tongue, concealed generosity by demanding high standards. She was also properly foresighted. Anticipating her death. Miss Hewitt had mailed her own obituary to Mrs. Ogden Reid, onetime publisher of the New York Herald Tribune...
Change at Reid Hell...
...daughter Marianne, art student at the Sorbonne, lives at Reid Hall. She writes: "Ever since TIME printed that another art student, Jacqueline Bouvier, once too made her home at Reid Hall, this is what 4 Rue de Chevreuse looks like...
...career teachers (earning $15,000 a year, Trump proposes) and assistants, this sort of schedule requires a different kind of school planning. Though acoustics are a problem (no really soundproof movable partition has been perfected), flexible walls can help turn the trick. One arresting example is Architect John Lyon Reid's new (1958) Mills High School in Millbrae, Calif. Though built to stand 100 years, Mills follows an industrial "loft plan" in which none of the interior walls is structural. By adjusting a few nuts and bolts, walls can be shifted overnight...
...despite the California climate, Reid's $4,032,596 "factory" school (capacity: 2,000) has almost no windows; light comes through prismatic glass blocks in the ceilings. It is hermetically sealed and mechanically ventilated, so stripped down for action that pipes hang exposed. Flexible as it may be, say critics, it is a mighty cold-seeming place. Is this an invitation to learning...