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The Horizontal Lieutenant (M-G-M). Funnyman Jim Hutton, 26, is an unpolished bean pole (6 ft. 3 in.) who gangles at all angles like the second-string center on a Y.M.C.A. basketball squad, but sputters sourprises like a bright, green Lemmon. Funnywoman Paula Prentiss, 23, is a Texas skyscraper...
New York's giant Pan Am Building, under construction adjacent to Grand Central Terminal, is the world's largest office building, big enough to contain all the business offices of Little Rock, Spokane and Akron combined. Boston has $1 billion worth of construction under way or being planned...
When Saarinen died at 51 last September, he left a portfolio of projects that include much of his most daring work.† Of these, the CBS building was unique in Saarinen's eyes because "it will be the simplest skyscraper statement in New York," a "vertical leap of masonry...
The building's clean design results in part from Saarinen's admiration of the lines of Mies van der Rohe's Seagram Building in Manhattan. Saarinen decided that the only way to best the master was to be even purer. He took as his clue the words...
Outdoing NBC. The new building's site, at West 52nd Street and the Avenue of the Americas, is only two blocks from NBC's 70-story skyscraper in Rockefeller Center. Thus a main goal of the architecture is to make CBS look distinguished in comparison to its lofty...