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Lundy's fanciful roofs have now brought him commissions for a ski resort in New Mexico, a school in Westport, Conn., a Unitarian church in Fairfield County, Conn. But more than commissions and prizes (his $80,000 St. Paul's Lutheran Church just got an Award of Merit from the American Institute of Architects), Lundy treasures the enthusiastic response of the people who use his buildings. "There is nothing contrived about my architecture," he says. "It is bold and naked. If it doesn't succeed, then everybody knows about...
Handsome, wavy-haired Julian Frank was a lawyer. He lived with his beautiful wife and two small children in exurbanite Westport, Conn., commuted to his small office in Manhattan. Fellow commuters recall that he was a first-rate bridge player but a loud, boastful sort of fellow (says one acquaintance: "He gave me the impression of being a young man in a hurry-ambitious, driving, smart"). Others remember that he often talked of dreaming that he would some day die in a plane crash...
...built by spending his money both wisely and well. He married Broadway Actress Lucille Lortel in 1931, gave her off-Broadway's Theater de Lys for a 24th anniversary present ( The Threepenny Opera has been running there since 1955); earlier he had built the White Barn Theater in Westport, Conn. To help himself and his wife get around the city, he bought a Mercedes-Benz 190, had it equipped with a meter and a rooftop light, coughed up another $17,000 for a hackie's license and medallion. Then he hired a driver who ferries the Schweitzers around...
...WHRB yesterday. Other new officers include: Stephen C. Trivers '61 of Leverett House and Atlanta, Ga., station manager; Preston Townley '60 of Leverett House and Minneapolis, Minn., vice-president; Kenneth R. Dane '62 of Dudley House and Newton, treasurer; and James F. Flug '60 of Dunster House and Westport, Conn., board member...
...spring. It was the same with the other Japanese sightseeing-bus companies: a total of 51 crashes, 15 deaths, 843 injured. President Hatano's manager did some oriental-style brain-storming and came up with an idea any adman would be glad to put on the train for Westport. The idea: send the bus drivers to a Zen Buddhist temple to cool off with a little meditation...