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...note: A review of the Festival's "King Lear" will appear shortly. The drive to the handsome Shakespeare Festival Theatre on the Housatonic River in Stratford Conn. takes three hours via the Massachusetts Turnpike and Exit 53 from the Merritt Parkway. Performances start at 2 p.m. and 8 p.m. and have a tendency to begin promptly on the hour. There are free picnic facilities on the grounds...
...most architects bury within a building-staircases, heating pipes and air ducts-the architect has both opened the interior to freer use and the exterior to a greater play of light. A vast entrance stairway openly sweeps up to a mezzanine in baroque splendor, inviting visitors from a nearby parkway...
...roads. Not that Appalachia has a traffic jam; rather, the area would like to create one, with a road system that would bring in new industry and attract more tourists to its thousands of acres of lakes and forests. West Virginia, for example, estimates that 360 miles of new parkway in the state might bring in 7,000,000 more tourists each year, generate new annual income of $70 million...
...Americans were also a matter of astronomy, although Mark Tobey's star seemed dwindling. Three Tobeys went for a total of $34,000, or $8,500 below top estimates. But Willem de Kooning's flowing landscape, Merritt Parkway (TIME, May 18, 1959), garnered his top auction price, an even $40,000. And for the first time a Robert Rauschenberg was put up for bids. A 1959 "combine" (it includes a tie and a zipper) called Summer Storm popped right through the ceiling, to $13,000, or nearly twice the estimated price...
...tribute to the team you assigned to prepare the article. I feel sure, however, that you will forgive us for expressing some concern over the omission of the name, the Plaza, in your description of the marble-faced circular apartment building under construction on Philadelphia's Benjamin Franklin Parkway. It would be like our referring to your new home as "the top floors of a new building for a national weekly newsmagazine...