Word: architecte
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Architect Hermann Field, member of the U.S.'s most disappearing family, arrived in London with his wife Kate for a reunion with his sons, Alan, 9, and Hugh, 6. He had not seen them since 1949, when he plunged behind the Iron Curtain to hunt for his missing brother, Noel Field, onetime U.S. State Department official. Soon Noel's wife Herra also vanished. Then another Field was reported missing: Erika, Noel's adopted daughter. Released last October after five years in a Polish prison, Hermann Field spent a month "convalescing" in Poland, then continued resting in Switzerland...
When the town fathers of Bristol, Va. (pop. 15,954) set aside $8,500 for "ornamental stone" to decorate their new $1,200,000 high school, they did not specify exactly what they wanted. The choice was left to the school's architect, who decided on a piece from one of Italy's leading modern sculptors, Pericle Fazzini (TIME, May 7, 1951). But when the packing case arrived from Rome last year and the school officials got their first look, they gasped in pained surprise. Inside was a 6½ft. expressionistic bronze statue of a nude...
...have any bones to pick with Mr. Fazzini. His statue may be a 'divine piece' and it may be worth $8,500, but we're sorta old-fashioned hereabouts and kinda figure we could use the money better somewhere else." Last week, while the school architect began looking around for new customers, Sculptor Fazzini's "Groping Boy" was still in its packing case at the Bristol high school...
Backdrop for Stars. Hialeah was built by a man who has long served Florida's spiritual needs rather than its sporting habits. Church Architect Lester W. Geisler (he designed the million-dollar First Presbyterian Church on Miami's Brickell Avenue and the 18-acre, cruciform drive-in Pasadena Community Church at St. Petersburg). At Hialeah, a dignified formal park stretches to the $2.5 million clubhouse. Not until he rides in an escalator into a profusion of bars, restaurants and pari-mutuel windows does the visitor get a glimpse of the track itself, which is framed by hedges...
...Angelo. Texas (pop. 52,000), the murder was the biggest news in years. Wealthy Helen Harris Weaver. 51. wife of a prominent local architect, had tried to start up her Chevrolet one morning last month and been killed by a bomb planted under the hood and hooked up to the ignition system. Her husband. Harry, 67, told police he suspected that his ex-son-in-law, Harry Washburn, a down-and-out Houston contractor, was involved in the murder. Washburn, said Weaver, had been threatening the family and trying to extort money. But District Attorney Aubrey Stokes had other ideas...