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...whole, is one of man's most fascinating architectural conglomerations. But when it comes to singling out individual masterworks by the greats of modern architecture, the pickings are slim. Frank Lloyd Wright and Mies van der Rohe get only one building each (the Guggenheim Museum and the Seagram Building); Marcel Breuer's first structure (the new Whitney Museum) is only now going up; and Pier Luigi Nervi is relegated to a bus station at the north end of the island. Last week Finnish Architect Alvar Aalto, one of the acknowledged deans of modern design, managed...
Best of all were the lunch-hour throngs in midtown Manhattan. Swinging onto Fifth Avenue, Humphrey and Kennedy were stalled for 15 minutes by a tumultuous turnout rivaling the one that greeted John Kennedy in 1960. It took 80 minutes to inch 25 blocks to the Seagram Building, where Hubert lunched with $ 1,000-a-year Democratic contributors at the elegant Four Seasons restaurant. Hubert just couldn't resist slowing things down even more by halting the motorcade several times to harangue the crowds through a portable loudspeaker. "This is perfect Democratic weather," he jubilated. "The sun is high...
...fact that the new pattern of disease so evident in San Mateo is also emerging in many another U.S. suburban community, the American Public Health Association last week gave Dr. Chope one of its annual $5,000 Bronfman awards, donated by associates of Samuel Bronfman, longtime head of Seagram's liquors. Two other Bronfman awards went to Dr. Herman E. Hilleboe, longtime (1947-62) New York State Health Commissioner, and Marion B. Folsom, former (1955-58) Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare...
Edgar M. Bronfman, president, Joseph E. Seagram & Sons...
...nothing but a manifestation of Thorstein Veblen's "conspicuous waste." The justices' alternative doctrine was obviously conspicuous mediocrity. Editorialized the Architectural Forum: "Make no mistake, if this outrageous decision is permitted to stand, its effects on our three-dimensional cities will not be superficial, but disastrous." Seagram will appeal...