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Untidy Warren. The four-story granite house is composed of a series of suites grouped around a central rotunda, lit by a skylight that is invisible from the ground. No expense was spared on the interior fittings. Wrote William J. Murtagh, director of education of the National Trust for Historic Preservation: "It has the best frescoed walls I have ever seen in this country, and the lavishness of the marble and wood inlay work almost defies description...
What they saw behind a cluster of birches was a simple, one-story New England house painted barnred, a modest vegetable garden, and?100 yards and across a stream from the house?a little concrete cell with a skylight. The cell contains a fireplace, a long table with a typewriter, books and a filing cabinet. Here the pale man usually sits, sometimes writing quickly, other times throwing logs into the fire for hours and making long lists of words until he finds the right one. The writer is Jerome David Salinger, and almost all his fictional characters seem more real...
...Joker (Ajym; Lopert). A skylight opens. A young man's head pops out. "Hurry, darling, hurry!'' a woman gasps. "My husband is coming!" Jauntily the young man leaps to the roof, shoots his cuffs, leaps to the next roof, thumbs his nose at the raging cuckold, dances off into the dawn. The young man is Jean-Pierre Cassel, whose frantic antics in The Love Game (TIME. Nov. 28) made him overnight the Danny Kaye of the French New Wave, and instead of popping out of that skylight he should of stood in bed. The Love Game...
...gang goes in through a coal chute. Unfortunately, the furnace has been converted to oil, and the first man lands in a tank of it. Somebody drops the burglar tools. Somebody else puts a foot through a skylight. Once inside the apartment-the old ladies are out of town for the weekend-the intruders delicately drill a hole in the wall that stands between them and the jeweler's safe. Spfluroosh! A jet of water jumps out of the wall-they managed to hit a pipe. And so on to the climax, which comes in one of the grandest...
...Careful Eye. Unlike Frank Lloyd Wright, designer of Manhattan's spectacular Guggenheim, Architect Johnson was willing to concede that a museum's first function is to display not itself but its art. His simple classical building is essentially a large airy courtyard covered with a coffered plastic skylight and surrounded by a graceful balcony that turns into a second floor. Designed with a careful eye on U.S. art museums' growing tendency to become civic centers, the Utica museum boasts both a theater-in-the-round and a special hideaway for the kids-a room decked out with...