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Jungles and an Aviary. Individual architects such as Edward D. Stone and Philip C. Johnson have designed custom-built atrium houses for private clients in years past. But only lately have mass builders begun to adopt the style. Pacesetter Homes set 169 atria on a tract in San Clemente, Calif., and Builder William J. Levitt-of the Levittown Levitts -includes a version of the house in his 1,450-unit development currently abuilding near Cape Kennedy, Fla. Greatest enthusiast is California's Joseph L. Eichler, who has built some 3,000 houses in 31 development tracts in the last...
...display, from the lowliest stinkpot to the "queen" of the show-a 45-ft. 5½-in. cruiser by the Century Boat Co., packed with spacious, gracious air-conditioned living for $61,670. Royalty is relative-this queen would be a mere lady in waiting to the great custom-built yachts of the world. And even at the Coliseum she was queen by a bare 3 in.; the Greenwich Yacht Co. offered one 45 ft. 2½ in. long for only $45,465, and there were four other cruisers 40 ft. or longer...
...pitcher for 24 years, whose roundhouse skill on the mound (211 victories for nine different clubs) was matched only by his foghorn braggadocio; of intestinal hemorrhage; in Orlando, Fla. Born Louis Norman Newsom, he always referred to himself and everyone else as "Bobo,'' drove around in a custom-built car with a two-tone bobo horn and his name in gold leaf a foot high on the dashboard. He was magnetic to baseballs, at various times broke his thumb, his kneecap, his leg. Pitching against the Yankees in the 1936 opener in Washington, a third-inning wild throw...
...growling about giveaways. The newsmagazine Der Spiegel ran a series of articles arguing that West Germany is an underdeveloped nation. A German diplomat, echoing complaints in the U.S. about misspent funds that American aid officials have heard since the days of the Marshall Plan, pointed to the $30,000, custom-built Rolls-Royce in which...
...genuine gospel until Mahalia Jackson made her first European tour in 1952. Now there are about 20 well-known professional groups, like the Stars of Faith, singing for pay around the country and getting paid well. Such gospelers as Clara Ward and her Ward Singers, who tour in a custom-built lavender Chrysler, are taking the Word as far afield as nightclubs and the borscht circuit. Even the big record companies have begun to realize that gospel sells-chiefly, as one A. & R. man points out, because "gospel singing has the greatest concentration of exciting voices in the country." Although...