Word: architecting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...great hand at modernizing U. S. hospitals is 67-year-old Dr. Goldwater. A talented though unschooled architect, he has acted as private consultant in the building of over 200 big hospitals throughout the world, was called in to help reform the British voluntary hospital system, helped design a vast institution in Leningrad for the Russian Government. His is the plan for operating-room suites now used in big hospitals : two surgical rooms linked by a sterilizing and "scrub" room...
Governed by rigid restrictions laid down for buildings on Benjamin Franklin Parkway, the court matches the adjacent Free Library, both being copies of the Marine Ministry in Paris. Architect W. R. Morton Keast, who wangled $1,525,500 of PWA money for the building, was given free hand with the interior. But because of PWA and Philadelphia municipal requirements, Architect Keast had to call for competitive bids for murals. However, he persuaded PWA to let the bidders tell the jury about their qualifications. Philadelphia's municipal Art Jury (once headed by Collector Joe Widener) passed upon 22 bidding artists...
THIS DEATH WAS MURDER-March Evermay-Macmillan ($2). Widow Haskell had three daughters, two sons, money. Then she married a gentle, frugal architect-artist, Erich Humphrey. After her death, Erich was murdered. An absorbing play of brother-sister-mother motives (not to mention lawyer and caretaker problems...
After conducting his course in housing research at M.I.T. for the next few months, Alvar Aalto, well-known Finnish architect, will return to his native land to aid in the reconstruction of Finland...
...sugar, cement), whose grandson, Charles II, was kidnapped seven years ago, ransomed for $60,000. The Boettcher family put up $193,000, enabled Denver's Board of Education to get a PWA grant and build a $384,000 school. Designed in pale green concrete and glass by famed Architect Burnham Hoyt, it was easily the handsomest and best-equipped school for crippled children...