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Spiritual simplicity was Mies' aim in designing the Illinois Tech Chapel. Maintaining the basic campus pattern, he insisted on flat-roofed rectangle but provided brick walls to give the chapel a sense of privacy and solitude. Steel mullions of the facade echo shape of the cross above the altar Arts & Entertainment

Mies van der Rohe and the Poetry of Purpose

Liza Minnelli runs lines with her Flora the Red Menace costar Bob Dishy. In the show, Liza's Flora falls for his character, a fellow designer who pulls her toward Communism. Arts & Entertainment

Liza Minnelli at 19: Rare Photos of a Legend on the Cusp of Stardom

The First American Girl Scout Daisy Gordon Lawrence in 1948 People

The First Girl Scout: Portraits of Daisy Gordon Lawrence

Dancer and actor Gene Kelly in a multiple-exposure dance sequence from the movie Cover Girl, 1944. Arts & Entertainment

Classic Photos of Stars in Stop Motion

In the eight-team 1958 Dixie Classic, the Michigan State Spartans (in the dark uniforms) made it all the way to the final before falling to host North Carolina State (in white). At the end of the season, N.C. State was ranked sixth and Michigan State seventh in the final AP poll. Arts & Entertainment

College Basketball’s Golden Days

French writer Albert Camus smokes a cigarette on the balcony outside his friend and publisher Michel Gallimard's office in Paris, 1955. Camus won the Nobel in 1957; in 1960, when he was 46 years old, he was killed in a car crash along with Gallimard, who was driving. Arts & Entertainment

The Nobel Prize in Literature: Portraits of Legendary Laureates

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