Word: architects
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...purser's records identified the missing man as Charles F. Keene. His disappearance was apparently the first drama in Mr. Keene's life. He had lived with his wife in a modest residential hotel in Washington, had a son who had graduated from Annapolis. Once an architect, at 63 he was a not too prosperous real estate broker, bound for Norfolk cheaply by boat presumably to complete an inconsequential real-estate deal...
...George Pepperdine was bubbling with plans for a new enterprise to be called George Pepperdine College. He has 34 acres of land on Los Angeles' flat south side, plans for ten buildings, of which four, low and glass-sided, will be up and ready for use this autumn. Architect John M. Cooper last week filed with Los Angeles authorities plans and specifications for the first, an $85,000 administration centre. Quietly directing operations from an office in Los Angeles' Chamber of Commerce Building, Mr. Pepperdine has already lined up a president, Batsell Baxter of Tennessee's David...
Neither to introduce a modern European style nor a fixed idea of "Gropius" architecture but to "teach an attitude towards the problems of our generation which is unbiased, original and elastic," has Europe's leading "modern" architect come to America and to Harvard...
Holding himself still in the ranks of the student, Gropius says that he is here "to study the extraordinary building organization, which is at present unsurpassed in the world," and "which has provided an instrument of such wonderful perfection that I think any architect would feel inspired and eager to take part in the task of developing the American architecture of the future...
Katherine W. Lane, eminent Boston sculptress who created the huge bronze images, spoke effusively about the difficulties which she encountered in the course of making the statues, and stressed the fact that in the case of the laboratories, the architect and the sculptress herself were always in perfect accord. She said she had named the animal on the right, Queen Bess, and the other, Queen Victoria...