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...become Columbia's most cherished hero since Sid Luckman was tossing passes at Baker Field. While his colleagues beam in admiring good will, President Grayson Kirk sings his praises as "an able and exciting teacher," the Graduate English Department information desk bears the legend "Only Charles Van Doren Knows All the Answers." and his students decorate the blackboard with such questions as "For $52,500, what did Plato mean by Justice?" At St. John's, where only two faculty members deign to own TV sets, President Richard Weigle went to a neighborhood bar to catch last week...
...used to hear a superstitious rumor to the effect that a favorable article in TIME was the Kiss of Death. If this is true, we had a wonderful "wake" at Pereira & Luckman after your Feb. 27 story appeared. We signed agreements for a guided missile research center, two new department stores, a major office building, an atomic energy installation, an electronics research laboratory, and a major naval installation. These construction projects total $77 million, and geographically range from Boston to the far Pacific. What a nice...
...CHARLES LUCKMAN, A.I.A. Los Angeles...
...Realities of Life." Pereira and Luckman generally charge clients either a straight fee or a percentage of cost, ranging from 4.5% (for an air base) to 8% (for a hospital). Despite the booming business. Pereira and Luckman take out much less than the $100,000-a-year Luckman got as president of Pepsodent. They plow back the bulk of the profits into the business. Though he is busier than ever, Luckman still finds time to serve on the boards of five Los Angeles civic groups. He wakes at 5 a.m. in the Bel Air mansion he bought from Hotelman Conrad...
...remodeling program at Los Angeles' Occidental College, started work on a 100-room addition to the Disneyland hotel, and a $40 million Los Angeles slum-clearance project. The new business brought P. & L.'s five-year contract total to well over $1.1 billion. "I think," grinned Chuck Luckman, "we're adjusting our art to the realities of life...