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Dean Jose Luis Sert of the Faculty of Design announced last week that Benjamin Thompson, Cambridge architect and planning adviser for schools and colleges, will be chairman of the Department of Architecture in the School of Design. Mr. Thompson, now a professor of Architecture, was responsible for the conversion of Harvard's 100-years-old Boylston Hall into a Modern Language Center, and for various renovations of older dormitories in Harvard Yard...
Conceived by Stanford's imaginative Professor of Pediatrics Dr. Norman Kretchmer and Dr. Sumner Yaffe, the new unit on the third floor of the Stanford Medical Center (whose ornate design by Architect Edward Stone leads townsfolk to call it the "Taj Mahal") is intended to win that kind of basic knowledge. Since Dr. Kretchmer and his colleagues want data that can be applied to all premature babies, they are studying an average run of preemies. Most are normal except for their size, though last week one had to be fed by a tube leading directly into its stomach through...
Heat with Peat. When Sinn Fein broke apart, young Lemass was the chief architect of De Valera's new Fianna Fail (Heroes of Destiny) Party, which came to power in 1932 and has been in office almost continually ever since. At 32, Lemass was the youngest member of De Valera's Cabinet and earned the affectionate Biblical sobriquet "Benjamin" (after Jacob's youngest son). Though Dev had taught mathematics-and is fervently believed by many fond compatriots to be one of the 13 men on earth who comprehend the theory of relativity-the Taoiseach had neither head...
...University City. "I am," says he happily, "the prisoner of geometry." Candela is usually content to let the soaring geometry speak for itself, but with churches, he admits with a grin, "we refine a little." One of his most beautiful is the chapel in Lomas de Cuernavaca, done with Architect Guillermo Rosell. It is a pure hyperbolic paraboloid whose slender edges seem to float free and whose roof slopes from each end down to a skylight. Guarded by a tapering cross, it stands upon a lonely hill, surging toward the sky-a modern version of the mighty Gothic reach...
...chart Allied strategy but later in full, controversial view when his wartime diaries became the basis for The Turn of the Tide and Triumph in the West, in which he attacked virtually every top American (Ike: "no real commander"; Patton: "A character") and grandly regarded himself as the real architect of victory; of a heart attack; in Hartley Wintney, Hampshire...