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Alarums & Excursions In Detroit, Architect Frank Lloyd Wright hammered away again at American building habits. Said he: "America is the only nation in the history of the world that went from barbarism to degeneracy without developing a culture. And we won't have any culture until we have good architecture. Until we have a culture we won't have a true democracy...
...save it, townsmen, under the leadership of Architect Albert Chauvel, felled pine trees from a nearby forest, dragged them to the cathedral to reinforce crumbling columns, collected bricks from wrecked houses to make emergency walls...
...Florida farm when his appointment to Korea was announced. Monday, Truman saw his congressional leaders and met with the Cabinet, asked opinions of both groups, but told neither what he planned later. Secretary of State Dean Acheson undoubtedly already knew about it, but through the historic week, Acheson, architect of the Asia policy that MacArthur attacked, kept assiduously out of the press and out of sight...
Daughter of a well-to-do Roman architect and engineer, Pier got her look of lean intensity from a spell of malnutrition late in World War II. Though she was never trained as an actress, her delicate features and impressive sincerity made her the "discovery" of three different moviemakers in search of talent. The most recent, Teresa's Scripter Stewart Stern, came across her in Rome after she had made her first movie (Tomorrow Is Too Late) in Italy. After he met her, Director Zinneman thought "she was one of the few genuine film talents I have ever known...
World's hero is Hayden Chart, 35, an architect who loses his pretty, nagging wife Caprice in an automobile accident for which he blames himself. Ridden by guilt (but not very hard) and by boredom with his old life in Newlife, Colo., Hayden sets out for Europe to recover his lost youth and to learn some of the things they never taught him at Amherst-the glory of the Middle Ages, for instance...