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...escape, or for French housewives to throw their garbage into the street. Last week, with the building nearing completion, vinophilic Frenchmen were talking about the most serious flaw of all. A Marseille daily, La France, pointed out with horror that, by building his Radiant City on stilts, the architect had left no room for wine cellars. Said one indignant Marseillais: "Who wants to live in a temperance asylum? Give me a one-story bungalow with four walls, windows, a roofand a wine cellar...
...nonetheless formidable. Probably the biggest of them are the Met's two warehouses and their contents: tons & tons of out-of-date scenery. Another is the unmanageable old house itself, with its grimy brick face staring stolidly out on Broadway. Designed in 1880 by a college (Yale, Williams) architect named J. Cleaveland Cady, who had never seen any of the world's great opera houses, nor so much as a single opera performance, the building is a nearly insuperable drawback. There is no backstage storage space for scenery; to haul a big opera in & out of the warehouse...
After asking its readers to name the greatest living American," the Saturday Review of Literature reported their choice-General Dwight D. Eisenhower. Members of the National Arts Foundation picked Dr. Albert Schweitzer as the man who has "the best solution to the world's problems," and Architect Frank Lloyd Wright as the contemporary American artist who would be "the most highly regarded" by the year...
...week appointed its first woman vice president. She is Brooklyn-born Beatrice Rosenberg, 52, who joined Macy's as a hat clerk 32 years ago, climbed steadily up to department manager, a merchandise counselor (millinery and footwear) and merchandise administrator. Vice President Rosenberg (married to Harry Kirshbaum, an architect) is now in charge of the millinery and shoe sales staffs, some 400 people. Her motto:"Beat last year's figures...
Albert Mayer, a New York architect, will discuss defense aspects of new towns and current proposals for decentralization of Washington...