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...sanity. As a driving instructor, he maintains classroom calm while he sits in the front seat of a car with a lady who goes 75 in her driveway. As an eager 1904 entrepreneur, he tries to start transcontinental passenger service at once by putting a toilet on the Wright brothers' plane. As a stiff-lipped submarine commander, he tells the crew: "I think our firing on Miami Beach can best be termed ill-timed...
Only a Vanderbilt. Lapidus graduated from the Columbia School of Architecture in 1927, began his career as the shoe-store Frank Lloyd Wright by pioneering in store-front design that turned drab show windows into eye-catching display cases. But his lavish future was foreshadowed when a gold, walnut and marble bathroom that he designed for Mrs. William K. Vanderbilt caused her husband to complain: "I'm only a Vanderbilt, not a Rockefeller!" By 1943 the fun had gone out of store design, and Lapidus branched into architecture on his own. For several years he worked mainly...
...arrested, heard the Rev. Martin Luther King, head of Atlanta's Southern Christian Leadership Conference, predict that willingness to go to jail "may well be the thing to awaken the dozing conscience of many of our white brothers." In Nashville, Fisk University's President Stephen J. Wright summed up the protest movement: "I see no cessation of this struggle in the foreseeable future. This is no student panty raid. It is a dedicated universal effort, and it has cemented the Negro community as it has never been cemented before...
Among the best: Dallas' 450-seat Kalita Humphreys Theater, designed by Frank Lloyd Wright, which has a turntable stage flanked by two side stages, a unique lighting system, superstereophonic acoustics; Palm Beach's 813-seat Royal Poinciana Playhouse, whose stage apron curves out to provide more acting area, or, in the case of a musical, slides back to open an orchestra pit; Hollywood's 1,024-seat Huntington Hartford Theater, lavishly decorated with relief sculpture; Phoenix' 523-seat Sombrero Playhouse, which includes clubrooms and an art gallery...
Clean and Decent, by Lawrence Wright. The natural history of the bathroom may be an unlikely subject, but the author's wit and scholarship make this book better bathtub reading than most novels...