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Meanwhile, in Finland, a brilliant young architect named Alvar Aalto and his architect wife, Aino, really got somewhere with modern furniture. Influenced by the Bauhaus and Le Corbusier (real name: Charles-Edouard Jeanneret), but experimenting in plywood instead of steel, they smoothed out geometric kinks, turned out chairs which combined the functional with good sense and charm. The Aaltos were the first to make chairs with pliant one-piece backs and resilient seats. They pioneered also in welding together layers of plywood with synthetic cement, cold-pressing them for six weeks into posture-pleasing shapes...
...Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art last week were three types of art from three nations. In one room were examples of U. S. industrial art in machined metal and glass. In another the Museum displayed modern furniture, scientifically designed in pale plywood by the brilliant Finnish architect, Alvar Aalto. Balancing these examples of machine and functional art was a third room in which visitors found reportorial art of the most sensitive kind-an exhibition of 105 drawings made in Spain by the Leftist artist, Luis Quintanilla...
Arnold M. Ross '35 (L) defaulted to Philip H. Singer '34 (W); Robert M. Peet '36 (W) defeated Jonathan R. Keim '34 (L) 3-1; Stillman P. Williams '35 (W) defeated Stephen Smith '34 (L) 3-2; Abjam T. Collier '34 (L) defeated Alvar V. Polk '34 (W) 3-1; Stephen H. Tyng '33 (L) defeated Ashton Emerson...
Chester R. Singer '35 defeated Alden H. Bryan '35, 3-2; Douglas C. Scott '35 defeated Robert M. Peet '36, 3-2; Francis E. Strobhar '36 lost to Max L. Baughman '35, 1-3; William D. Black '34 defeated Alvar W. Polk, Jr. '35, 3-0; Seth H. Low '35 defeated Robert M. Saul...
Lowell 5, Winthrop 0. Robert R. Lucas '34 (L) beat John J. Knox '36 3-2, Roger S. Greene '34 (L) beat Robert M. Peet '36 3-2, Emmet H. Roorbach '34 (L) beat Max L. Baughman '35 3-2, Richard S. Baxter '34 (L) beat Alvar W. Polk, Jr. '34 3-2. John A. Leutkemeyer 1L (L) beat Robert...