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When Seagram's moved into the first nine floors of its house last December (the rest of the building, now 90% rented, will be ready in May, the large ground-floor restaurant in August), Mies van der Rohe proudly announced: "This is my strongest work." Says Architect Scout Phyllis Lambert: "You feel its force and restfulness as you enter. From the framing of the windows to the total building, love has gone into it-love for every detail...
...available each year, said the National Youth Scholarship Fund, some of the money will go to some rather special people. Examples: Pembroke has a scholarship for a girl who does not smoke, Yale has $1,000 for a boy named DeForest, Princeton has a scholarship for an Eagle Scout and Harvard has funds for boys with the name Anderson, Baxendale, Borden, Bright, Downer, Haven, Murphy or Pennoyer-and also for an lowan, preferably living somewhere along the Burlington. Among the lowan takers: Nathan Pusey of Council Bluffs...
...Navy's Football Coach Eddie Erdelatz played fast and loose with his new five-year contract just long enough to scout the football factory out at Texas A. & M. Like half a dozen others before him, including Michigan State's Duffy Daugherty and former Notre Dame Coach Frank Leahy. Eddie looked over the high-priced proposition and decided to leave. While Eddie went home to make his peace with the Naval Academy, Texas Governor Price Daniel took note of the Aggies' seven incomplete passes at seven successive coaches, and, just like an angry alumnus, demanded a full...
...knows more about surviving at the South Pole than Siple (TIME, Dec. 31, 1956), the obvious man to establish the first year-round colony in the world's deep freeze. As a Sea Scout, he went to the Antarctic 29 years ago with Admiral Richard E. Byrd, has spent four winters there since. As it turned out, Siple's buoyant personality proved as valuable as his scientific knowledge. He ran a surprisingly contented camp despite the little group's isolation, and the wearing, jet-black night of winter that was four months long. Siple's formula...
...sleuthing job breeds special techniques. The older film gets, the worse its stench. Says Daniel Jones, chief film scout for NBC's Project 20: "I go into an old film vault like a truffle hound. I go to the cans that smell worst first." Then he dumps water on them against the common risk that the old film may burst spontaneously into flames...