Word: architecting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...night when Architect Scott Henderson (Alan Curtis) meets her in a Manhattan bar and takes her to a show, the Lady (Fay Helm) is no phantom. Her handsome dolor is made the more memorable by a fiercely rhetorical hat. At the evening's end she drifts off without giving her name, and Architect Henderson drifts homeward to find detectives chewing cigars and chicle over his strangled wife. All efforts to find his alibi prove useless. The bartender (Andrew Tombes) has never seen her. Neither has the randy little drummer (Elisha Cook Jr.) who ogled her all evening. Neither...
...almost obliterated by German bombs, will rise again. But the new fane, as described last week by Coventry's Bishop Neville Vincent Gorton, will be an innovation among Anglican Cathedrals. The striking change will not be in architecture (it will be modernized Gothic, designed by famed Roman Catholic architect Sir Giles Gilbert Scott), but in the cathedral's interdenominational character...
...Republican Party, age 90, stood uncertainly, somnolently before a crisis in its history, and a bigger crisis in the nation's history. It had less than five months to pull itself together. In Chicago next June, the G.O.P. must try to choose a Presidential candidate and architect a Party platform which U.S. voters will like better than they like Franklin Roosevelt and the late New Deal...
Manhattan has enough city plans on hand to paper Broadway from end to end. This week it got one more. The plan's author is Engineer-Architect Hermann Herrey. He was a widely famed city planner in Britain and on the Continent before the war, organized a national road-plan exhibit for the Royal Institute of British Architects, is now studying U.S. city problems on a grant from the American Philosophical Society. His collaborators are his wife-a physicist teaching at Queens College-and a Harvard architect, Constantin Pertzoff...
Died. Sir Edwin Landseer Lutyens, 74, famed British architect, head of the Royal Academy's committee for London's reconstruction; in London. Round-faced, white-mustached Lutyens, key designer of the Raj's splendiferous capital at New Delhi, was also the Protestant designer of Liverpool's Cathedral of Christ the King (Roman Catholicism's largest-to-be) and London's Whitehall Cenotaph (the Empire's preeminent World War I memorial). In 1927 he predicted a short life for Manhattan's "corroded" steel-frame skyscrapers...