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...least pretentious store fronts in Harvard Square is that of "Billings and Stover, Apothecaries." Two simple panels, each supporting a wooden mixing jar and twin glasses of chemically colored water, are all that adorn the "show" windows. The fact is that the firm of Billings and Stover doesn't have to advertise or dress up in order to attract customers; it has been going strong ever since...
When a public building is erected, the job is done-always in theory if not always in fact-by the contractor who submits the lowest bid. With respect to murals which nowadays adorn big public buildings, this principle would not ordinarily work. The lowest bidder might turn out to be a sign painter, a Greek restaurant dauber, a student. Yet last week in Philadelphia a raft of murals stood completed which represented perhaps the first, and certainly the biggest, artistic bidfest in the U. S. The murals decorated a new $3,390,000 Municipal Court, scheduled to open around...
...years ago the Associated Press wanted to adorn the entrance to its new building in Manhattan's Rockefeller Center with a large, impressive plaque in conventional bronze, offered a prize of $1,000 for the best design. Winner was Isamu Noguchi, muscular, California-born, Japanese-Irish sculptor, who submitted a small-scale plaster model depicting five symbolic figures (editor, reporter, photographer, teletype and telephoto operators) straining eyes and ears for news. With sudden inspiration and daring, A. P. decided to have its plaque in stainless steel...
...more. He tells other people what he wants. When he returns to his office he is as unruffled and immaculate as before. A fussy dresser, he goes in for double-breasted suits in sturdy fabrics, insists that his tailors (Bell & Co., Manhattan) put cuffs on his coat sleeves, adorn his lapels and cuffs with little raised ridges that give the suits a ribbed appearance vaguely like the belly...
...photographic establishments of Herr Professor Heinrich Hoffmann in Berlin, Munich and Vienna last week poured thousands of big & little pictures of big little Adolf Hitler, to adorn the walls of the new German subjects of Bohemia, Moravia and Memel. It is an unwritten law of Greater Germany that every household, office, factory and assembly room must show a picture of Der Führer, and Heinrich Hoffmann is Germany's official Reichsbildberichterstatter, or Photographic Reporter of the Reich...