Word: architecte
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died. David Edward Town, 62, executive chairman of Hearst Corporations, board chairman of International Magazine Co. (Cosmopolitan, Good Housekeeping, Motor, Motor Boating, American Architect, American Druggist); of a blood infection; in Manhattan...
Many a Manhattan architect out of a job sat down at his drawing board last month to plot a setting for legal beer. His incentive was a contest of the Architects' Emergency Committee. Last week the designs for taprooms, cafes and beer gardens were hung in Manhattan's Industrial Mart, an idea showroom for the hotel & restaurant trade. One Peter Copeland, an architect who has not paid his rent in two months, won the first prize for both cafes and taprooms. His cafe had a modernistic oval bar in blue and white. One Kate Hall won first prize...
...voices. Then once again the court convenes, and 32 veniremen having been dismissed (19 for cause, 13 by peremptory challenges), the jury is complete. The jury consists of a hotel manager, a clerk, a publisher, a traffic manager, a contractor from The Bronx, etc. One of them is an architect hailing from Groton, Yale, and the Beaux-Arts, another a Parkavian civil engineer. The vital first act is over. If Mr. Mitchell is convicted it will not be by the prejudices of a proletarian jury...
...Clarence Darrow, Zona Gale. Russian-born, he is now 29. In 1930 he wrote a book called Love In Chicago under the pseudonym of Charles Walt, combined Christian names of his favorite authors-Dickens and Whitman. Author Bein's anonymity was assumed to save his brother, a Chicago architect, embarrassment. In 1930 he also wrote Youth In Hell, another reform school story. The Group Theatre is now considering his The House of Kuvalsky...
...field of architecture, to be given by J. J. Haffner, professor of Architecture; Functions in Building, dealing with practical requirements, by W. F. Bogner, assistant professor of Architecture; City Planning, by lecturers in the School of City Planning; and Professional Practice, a course covering the administrative duties of the architect, drafting room methods, and mechanical knowledge of construction, to be given by specialists in active practice and members of the Faculty...