Word: architecte
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died, Wilson Mizner, 56, Klondike prospector, playwright, wit, manager of Boxer Stanley Ketchel, gambler, Florida land boomer (with his Architect Brother Addison), scenario writer; of a heart attack after six months' illness; in Los Angeles. To each of two nieces he willed $1 in cash, left the rest of his estate to "my friend, Florence Atkinson of Los Angeles," onetime cinemactress...
...became an ardent backer of Howard Scott and Technocracy, which made a thousand headlines. His name also helped Architect Buckminster Fuller publicize the visionary "dymaxion" house...
...American Cathedral Church of the Holy Trinity plans to construct a social center for American students in Paris. The building will be of a grandeur hitherto unexampled in its field, for the site is the Chateaubriand Estate and its architect will be taken from a present employment in Rheims Cathedral. Every feature of American luxury has representation, including the swimming pool and the ubiquitous cafeteria, in what is apparently a very thorough and a very sincere attempt to transplant the homeland with its virtues and its faults intact...
Mabel Ganson Evans Dodge Sterne Luhan is one of those U. S. women who is conscious of having exerted a considerable influence, not counting her husbands. During her second marriage (to Edwin Dodge, Boston architect) her salon in Florence was famed throughout Europe. "Everybody" in the art world visited her, from Gertrude Stein to Eleonora Duse. In Manhattan she was a hospitable hostess to Lincoln Steffens, the late John Reed, Walter Lippmann, Emma Goldman, Carl Van Vechten, Robert Edmond Jones. She was largely responsible for the art exhibition which featured the famed cubist A Nude Descending the Staircase. Her fourth...
While protest meetings crackled, Edsel Ford went before the Detroit City Council with his Arts Commission budget. With him went Architect Albert Kahn, a fellow Institute director. The City Councilmen took the chance to lambaste the frescoes Mr. Ford had given Detroit. One called them a "travesty on the spirit of Detroit . . . and Mr. Ford's factories. . . . There is not a man there with a pleasant look or a smile. . . . The anatomical exhibitions . . . can't be sent through the mails." Messrs. Ford & Kahn made no reply...