Word: architects
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...being the Catholic feast of St. Nereus & Companions, was Mother's Day. In Pittsburgh was dedicated a $4,000,000 church. East Liberty Presbyterian, given by the late Richard Beatty Mellon and his wife Jennie King Mellon in memory of their mothers. Four years abuilding by famed Medievalist Architect Ralph Adams Cram, the Gothic church will seat 1.700, will automatically become the cathedral of Presbyterianism in an already strongly Presbyterian city...
...great sugar plum fell last week when Duveen popped out, under the Government's cross-questioning, that he (Duveen) actually suggested a definite site for the Mellon museum: a spot "by the obelisk near the pond" (Duveen British for the Washington Monument), that he had recommended a British architect to Mellon and that he had actually seen rough sketches of the museum plans...
They had arrived at 3.55 o'clock to prepare for an intellectual seating on world history. They had even adjusted themselves to the room, made dreary by Plato, Kant, and the architect. But at nine o'clock they received the terse order from the proctor that they must find Emerson H on the second floor before they could take their examination. The desperate band rushed forth only to find that Emerson H, had been carelessly misplaced for the morning...
...Well-known throughout social Manhattan are the four Damrosch daughters: Alice, a famed ski-jumper and the divorced wife of Architect Pleasants Pennington; Gretchen, who writes plays and is married to Lawyer Thomas Finletter (Coudert Bros.); Leopoldine, who plays the piano and is wife to Playwright Sidney Howard; Anita, who married Robert Littell, able author and critic...
Next July Dana Greeley will take over the pulpit once held by Rev. Ezra Gannett, first president of American Unitarian Association, and Rev. Paul Revere Frothingham. Born in Lexington, Mass., he is the son of William, Roger Greeley, architect and Unitarian layman. Enterprising but no brilliant student, at Harvard (1931) he played football a few minutes in a Yale game, was president of Delta Upsilon. At 23, before he received his Harvard divinity degree, he took a Unitarian parish in Lincoln, Mass. Last year he went to Concord, N. H., became minister-at-large to New Hampshire Unitarian churches. Dana...