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...exhibition of ten paintings and seven gouaches by the eminent architect Le Corbusier is now on display at Robinson Hall of the Graduate School of Design...
...Joyous Daybreak." The next night 10,000 Negroes jammed two of Montgomery's largest churches and adjacent streets to savor their triumph. Appearing before each group in turn was the spiritual architect of that triumph, the Rev. Dr. King. He was too wise to be triumphant; he read to each congregation a statement that should loom large in the Negro's long, patient fight for equality...
Mexican Ivanhoe. When the university opened its doors in 1948. it had 107 freshmen and a faculty of 13. Its plant consisted of a Normanesque" castle" (which Architect Eero Saarinen once described as "Mexican Ivanhoe") and a few other buildings that had belonged to the defunct Middlesex University Medical School. At first the founders hoped that Albert Einstein would consent to take over the presidency. But when Einstein declined, they hit upon the happy choice of Historian Abram Sachar, chairman of the National Hillel Commission...
...Form Follows Function." Architect Sullivan had already put in a year at M.I.T. (he entered at 16) and two years at Paris' Ecole des Beaux Arts before he was taken on in 1880 as partner by one of Chicago's top engineers, Dankmar Adler. During the 15 years-the two men worked together, they drafted plans for more than 100 buildings, including Chicago's Auditorium Building, Stock Exchange and a score of office buildings that set trends throughout the Midwest...
Another elegible diplomat trained under the last Democratic Administration is George Kennan, former head of the State Department's policy, planning staff and architect of the containment policy, who could bring his highly professional outlook to the top post in the State Department. Or, by way of contrast, Chester Bowles, once Governor of Connecticut and Ambassador to India, is considered a possible Secretary of State who would be an active salesman for American democracy, particularly in Asia...