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Scorer & Feeder. In a game where human skyscrapers usually grab the spotlight, the little O'Briens (5 ft. 9 in., 160 Ibs.) are a refreshing exception. Johnny is the scorer, Ed the "feeder." Playing on a team that specializes in an all-out "fire-horse" offense, Johnny is able...
Can the half-million modern Bolivians bring these backward highlanders to the ways of the western world? Amid the faded red-tile roofs of La Paz (pop. 321,000), world's highest capital, rise such steel-and-glass skyscrapers as the 14-story University of San Andres. Shaggy llamas...
Hasan himself was in Turkey, painting, going to school, and playing soccer in his spare time. There wasn't enough money to send him to the U.S. along with his paintings. But Hasan is bearing up. He would like to see the U.S. and "paint those majestic skyscrapers," but...
He has finished plans for a $6,000.000 aquarium for Brooklyn's Coney Island, is working on a $1,000,000 auditorium for Ohio's Oberlin College, a $3.500,000 office for the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in Manhattan, and a $22 million public housing project (1...
Slab-shaped buildings-long and narrow but tall enough to be vast-are exciting today's architects as pencil-point skyscrapers did their predecessors. No man has done more than Wallace Harrison to make the idea a reality: he cloaked it with stone in creating Rockefeller Center and with...