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...apparent from the first frolicking scenes of Running that this film's Chicago--grim, gray and covered with dirty slush--is clearly not the same shining citadel we saw last week in Ferris Bueller's Day Off. There's crime on the streets of Chicago, unlike in picture-perfect Winnetka, and its up to Costanzo and his oh-so-cool sidekick Ray Hughes to whip the outlaws into shape...
...keeping with his all-American image, Hudson, 59, was born in the heartland, in Winnetka, Ill. His mother was a telephone operator, and his father, Roy Scherer, was an automobile mechanic who left the family when his son was a child. When his mother remarried, little Roy assumed his stepfather's surname, Fitzgerald. After that, his boyhood was so normal and wholesome that one of his high school chums was later to recall, "It looked like apple pie and ice cream to me." Roy saw wartime service as a Navy airplane mechanic, then headed west to Hollywood. He had once...
...number of photos and drawings in the exhibition demonstrate, the Saarinen architectural vision soon left its mark on other parts of the U.S. as well. With his architect son Eero, Saarinen collaborated on such buildings as the innovative Crow Island School (with Perkins, Wheeler and Will) in Winnetka, Ill., and the calm, lofty First Christian Church in Columbus, Ind. Eero's work eventually eclipsed his father's. His eerily mysterious M.I.T. Chapel at Cambridge, Mass., is not only one of his own but also one of 20th century architecture's greatest triumphs. After Eliel's death...
Congratulations to TIME for a prize issue, something to cherish and keep. Gladys Armstrong Winnetka...
...school budget. There has never been much real pressure to hold spending in check, and budgets have ballooned accordingly. In 1980 per-pupil expenditure for operations and amortization exceeded $3,600 for the town's 1,922 schoolchildren, placing Weston in the ranks of educationally elite suburbs like Winnetka, Ill., whose New Trier East High School is widely looked upon as the best public secondary school in the country...