Word: architecte
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Natacha Carlu's original ambition was not painting but medicine. She is descended from a long line of Russian doctors. While studying medicine in Paris she met and married famed Architect Jacques Carlu, Director of the Fontainebleau School of Fine Arts. Architect Carlu did not fancy a doctor for a wife; he asked her to give up her studies so that she could accompany him on his travels. In Rome Mme Carlu began to paint, with the enthusiastic approval of her husband. But he would not let her go to art school, lest it affect her individuality...
...This association purchased Monticello, Jefferson home, atop a hill outside Charlottesville, Va.. made it a public memorial. Many an architect considers Monticello a finer example of early American architecture than Washington's Mt. Vernon...
...Gurdjieffites look for leadership to Alfred Richard Orage, onetime editor of the London New Age. In England they looked to Metaphysician Peter Ouspensky (Tertium Organum] until he quarreled with Gurdjieff. Manhattan Gurdjieffites include: Architect Hugh Ferriss, Editor Herbert Croly (New Republic), Socialite Mrs. Meredith Hare, Critic Gorham B. Munson, Musician Jeffrey Mark, Farmer Schuyler Jackson (TIME, Dec. 23), Authors Muriel Draper, Isa Glenn, Bayard Schindel, Jean Toomer...
...Author. Author William John Locke, 67, mathematician, schoolteacher, architect, novelist, has been overpraised by the Atlantic Monthly as "the kindliest spirit in English letters since Lamb." Born in Barbados, he was educated at St. John's College, Cambridge, taught archi- tecture, became Secretary of the Royal Institute of British Architects, in 1907 became a fulltime novelist. Schoolmasterly in appearance, pince-nez-ed, Author Locke likes dogs, children. He is married, has one adopted daughter. Fortnight ago Author Locke was seriously ill in his villa on the Riviera, his great & good friend Author E. Phillips Oppenheim at the bedside. Other...
This afternoon's lecture will be the second in a series of four talks by Hanks on airport problems of design, construction, and management for the engineer, architect, and business executive. Next Tuesday his third lecture will discuss "American Airports, Present and Future...