Word: architects
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...more famous for her athletes than for her salons. But Tavasts and Karelians (all Finns are one or the other) point with greater pride to Finland's world's champion literacy record, boast that, except for 0.9% every last Finn today can read and write, exhibit Modernist Architect Eliel Saarinen as world evidence of Finnish culture. If you were to ask on the streets of a U. S. city who was the outstanding modern Finn, chances are the reply would be: Paavo Nurmi. But if you asked the same question on the streets of Helsingfors the answer would...
With a show of fun and frankness unusual in his stereotyped profession, a San Francisco pressagent lately wrote: "When you come right down to it, a great World's Fair is the architect's form of that good old American custom, the Binge. . . . He can work in the realm of pure fantasy without worrying much about his client's idea of how a building ought to look, because he is using (perhaps happily) impermanent materials and because his real client is the general public, and what the general public wants is not utility, but romance and beauty...
Adam Gimbel wanted to be an architect, but Gimbels have been storekeepers ever since 1842 when an earlier Gimbel started a trading post for fur trappers in Vincennes, Indiana. Adam went to Yale Architectural School for two years but he did not go into architecture. Instead, in 1915, he started to help keep the family stores. Storekeeper Horace Saks died in 1925, just after opening a store on Fifth Avenue and selling out to Gimbel Bros. Adam Gimbel's cousin Bernard made him president of Saks-Fifth Avenue. But after 17 years of storekeeping, handsome Storekeeper Adam Gimbel still...
...architect of the "Good Society" decides that the holding company . . . "is a fartuitous evolution from the condition of the law and marks a vital point at which the law was maladjusted to the economy . . . Thus the renovation of corporate law so as to prevent business from becoming any bigger than it can become in the test of the market is a necessity item on the agenda of liberalism." Mr. Lippmann does not say whether he favors the New Real's Holding Company Bill...
...that the fluttering ribbons of his eyeglasses have been in the thick of every U. S. art battle for a quarter of a century. His first wife, Marie Sterner, long a Manhattan art dealer, was among the first to introduce modern French painting to the U. S. His son, Architect Harold Sterner is a World War veteran and designer of the Helena Rubinstein beauty parlor...