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...snow-capped mountains of Lebanon, and began his first sketch for the U.S. New Delhi embassy, a commission he had received from the U.S. State Department three months before. The sketch (see cut), done quickly on the corner of a coffee-stained Manila envelope which Maria snatched from the wastebasket afterward, may well prove to be a historic architectural document, for by almost universal acclaim, Stone's New Delhi embassy is one of the key architectural achievements of the decade. What Stone has managed to do in a single building is to reintroduce into modern architecture the quality...
...Into the Wastebasket. Such successes have thrust Getty into the public spotlight-and he is not sure he likes the glare. His wealth attracts about 1,000 letters a week from people who want money. Getty reads most of the letters himself, throws them into the wastebasket. The only recorded instance in which Paul Getty has ever loosened his purse strings was the donation of $500,000 worth of art from his collection (now housed in a special museum wing of his 64-acre seaside ranch at Malibu, Calif.) to the Los Angeles County Museum. Everyone automatically assumed there...
...occupants of the room, Athanasios Boulukos '59 and John T. Tangeman '59, reported that they were both absent when the fire started, and returned to find the room ablaze. They said that it had apparently begun in a wastebasket...
...debaters in Room 222 of the parish house of Minneapolis' Central Lutheran Church sent out for sandwiches. At 8:30 a rumpled young minister emerged to empty a piled-high wastebasket. At 9 130 another minister came out in his stocking feet, tieless and bleary-eyed. "They are still quibbling over two words," he said. Twenty-five minutes later the door opened again and the U.S.'s No. i Protestant churchman stood there, his 6-ft., 1½-in. frame a little more stooped than usual and his face a little paler...
When I received your July 22 issue, I promptly threw it in the wastebasket. Surely the cover should be reserved for people who have been worthwhile in the world? Please remove my name from your subscription list...