Word: architecting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Safe Deposit and Trust Co. of Baltimore, guardians of eight-year-old Christopher Smith Reynolds, son of Torchsinger Libby Holman and the late, tobacco-wealthy Zachary Smith Reynolds, declared it cost them $6,944.44 a month to maintain the boy. . . Harry K. Thaw, 70, wealthy playboy slayer of Architect Stanford White in 1906, turned up in Saratoga at the races. . . Divorced at last were Lois De Fee (6 ft. 2 in.) and Billy Curtis (4 ft.), married as a publicity stunt...
After a year of bench-warming, some of the U.S.'s star architects were finally at work last week on defense housing. In Pittsburgh's suburb of New Kensington, not far from Aluminum Co. of America's sprawling plant, builders got started on a set of emergency houses designed by famed Architect Walter Gropius of Harvard and his co-Bauhäusler Marcel Breuer. They differed as much from the first crop of Government houses for defense workers as a Frank Lloyd Wright design does from a suburban contractor...
Many of these big-name projects are frankly experimental. Each architect was encouraged to cut fancy figures with 15 to 25 of his houses, and Washington housers hoped to find some gold-medal ideas among them; but most of the houses were designed on more conventional lines. Government officials were leary of prefabrication which got little chance to show its merits in defense housing's inept first year. But they have finally realized that speed and low cost are persuasive claims, and from 10 to 20% of defense housing is now prefabricated...
...defense housing's first year, FWA (in charge of building) turned over almost all assignments to the Public Building Administration (PBA), which had its own architects ready to hand, left independent architects out in the cold. Cried famed Modern Architect William Lescaze: "Experts are winning this war. Architects are experts. ... At the present moment a great number of architects . . . are made to feel that their usefulness to their country is infinitely smaller than that of an 18-year-old apprentice in a flying school...
Theo and Tom West get off to a glowing start. Tom, an architect, is absorbed in a low-cost housing project. Theo bears two children rather sooner than she is spiritually adequate to the job. Their friends are solid-seeming, yet Theo finds infidelities among them, and at length, bored, crib-ridden, anesthetic towards her husband and afraid of losing her youth, she has an affair herself. When Tom, a simple, active man, finds out, it drives him half out of his wits, her into penitence, both into a cruel psychic deadlock whose detailing is the best thing...