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...what Gropius has been up to since he left Harvard's Graduate School of Design last year (TIME, July 14). The founder of Germany's famed Bauhaus showed 300 friends and colleagues a model of a sheer, glass-walled office building, as clean and functional as a tumbler, which will rise 18 stories near Chicago's Loop. Also on display was an immense aerial view of Chicago's project to redevelop seven square miles of the city's South Side, including a spacious new hospital in a lakefront garden setting which Gropius is working...
...tiny veranda of his two-room, wattle-and-daub hut outside Port-au-Prince, a grizzled ex-U.S. Navy pharmacist's mate downed a tumbler of mahogany-colored Haitian rum. Through the low-hanging hibiscus and poinsettia came the first tentative beating of evening drums. To Stanley Henry ("Doc") Reser, Haiti's leading U.S born voodoo- practitioner, the sound was a call to ceremonies at the nearby temple in honor of Ogoun Ferreille, god of war and ironworkers...
...suspension resulted from an incident last spring, when the 6-foot-5-Inch center threw a glass tumbler out of a dormitory window on a dare. It hit the windshield of a professor...
...Kacho stuck to his chickens, though he saw a change come over his wife. "Each time they met, I thought each cup of coffee or tumbler of whisky she accepted was drugged. At first one drop, then two-until he had completely won her heart." One night last July, Toda called at the Kacho cottage, presumably to talk charities. "Unsuspectingly," said the ex-prince, "I opened the door to the cloakroom and there I discovered the figures of Toda and Hanako as I should never have seen them...
...pass out to their customers. Tootled shrilly by Argentine Ambassador Oscar Tascherest in the Imperial's supper club, it profoundly irritated the girl companion of a young British ex-officer named John Edwards. The Briton suggested that the Argentine desist. When Tascherest ignored the suggestion, Edwards took a tumbler of water and dropped a tiny trickle on the ambassador's head "to cool him off a bit." Tascherest retaliated by hurling a highball, with glass, at Edwards. "I thought then," explained Edwards later, "that he just wanted to play, so I got a pitcher of water, said...