People, Jun. 6, 1955

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On the auction block in Cairo: a confiscated, outsize frogman outfit, once the property of Egypt's bullfrogsize ex-King Farouk.

With mischief aforethought, Colorado Springs's Free Press sent sketches of the projected Air Force Academy (TIME, May 23) to cantankerous old (85) Architectitan Frank Lloyd Wright, asked him for his comments. Replied Wright: "[It looks to me] as if another factory had moved in where it should not be. [It] will probably be known as Talbott's Aviary, or, more realistically, a factory for birdmen." Then...

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