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Concrete & Paper Fans. Minoru Yamasaki's $1,172,000 conference building at Wayne University in Detroit is almost too pretty to be great. But it does promise well for the 60 acres of new campus construction that Wayne and Yamasaki hope to add. A Seattle-born Nisei, Yamasaki is in love both with Western technology and Oriental refinement. His crisp little temple of talk, set beside a reflecting pool, owes a lot to the Taj Mahal, something to Japanese paper fans, and most of all to modern engineering in glass and concrete. Yamasaki puts precision over ornamentation and lets...
...Hellmuth, Yamasaki & Lienweber of St. Louis and Detroit, for their concrete and glass terminal building at the St. Louis Municipal Airport...
...Haven since McGinnis took over has been the bold use of color on its rolling stock and on some Cape Cod and Westchester County stations. Last week McGinnis' dark-haired wife Lucille, a onetime interior decorator, was riding the New Haven with Detroit Architect Minoru Yamasaki, bent on "perking up" the road's dark and dingy stations in what McGinnis calls (he "grey-flannel-suit area," i.e., Connecticut's commuter country. "Hell," explained McGinnis, "for another nickel you might as well make a thing look good...
...earlier awards went to John E. Carlson '48 as "the man who has done most for Lowell House in the last year. Edward M. Yamasaki '50 as "the man who has fostered the most fraternal House spirit"; Frederick Richardson '48 as "the man who has done most to promote House athletics"; and Thurlow G. Ricker '48, as "the House member with the best sense of humor." Carlson is former chairman of the House Committee. Richardson is House athletic secretary...
Employment income will come to about $250. This leaves $600 as the net cost to each House for its DP student, according to the DP Sub-Committee of John H. Carnahan '51, John B. Jones, Jr. '51, and Edward M. Yamasaki '50, which has been organizing the program