Word: architecting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...nominate the veteran legislator, co-architect of U.S. foreign policy, astute & skillful negotiator . . . Arthur H. Vandenberg, U.S. Senator from Michigan...
...Much?" One night last week Manhattan Architect Wallace Harrison, who had helped build Rockefeller Center for the Rockefellers, walked into Manhattan's jangling, spangly Monte Carlo where Bill Zeckendorf was just beginning to enjoy himself. It was his sixth wedding anniversary, his partner's 34th birthday. Architect Harrison had a map of Manhattan in his hand. Ringing Zeckendorf's East Side site with a pencil, he asked: "How much?" Without batting an eye, Zeckendorf tossed off his answer: $8,500,000. Forthwith, a 30-day option in the name of John D. Rockefeller Jr. was signed...
Died. Timothy Ludwig Pflueger, 54, famed San Francisco architect, outspoken proponent of "Pacific Architecture," who designed such well-known San Francisco landmarks as the underground Union Square Garage and Nob Hill's Top of the Mark; of a heart attack; in San Francisco...
...subject of great historical proportions, Emmet Lavery has fashioned a generally plausible, heartwarming play out of the devoted, half-century old relationship between Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes and his wife, Fanny. No attempt is made to satisfy those who would have preferred hearing the principles of this most eminent architect of modern American Constitutional thought, in what would necessarily be a garrulous three-act production...
...steamboat. They called it "Fulton's Folly." Last week in Danbury, Conn, the scene was repeated with variations. The occasion: the first flight of the "Airphibian," a 150-h.p. light plane which can be bisected into an aluminum-bodied automobile.* The builder & demonstrator: Robert Edison Fulton Jr., an architect-turned-engineer and a descendant (he doesn't know the exact relation) of steamboat-builder Fulton...