Word: architects
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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English publishers used to say the same thing-until 1935. That year, in London, a handsome young man named Allen Lane, 33-year-old son of an architect, quit his job in his uncle's publishing house (the famed Bodley Head) and started publishing pocket-size, paperbound Penguin books. His original capital: ?100. His publishing office: a crypt beneath a Soho church. Tables were tomb tops; storage space was empty tombs. The first six months he sold over a million copies, including such titles as Hemingway's Farewell to Arms, André Maurois' Ariel, Mowrer...
...more modest scale than Long Island's colossal Jones Beach. Its main pavilion is designed on the lines of a neat white ocean liner-an idea carried out with more zip if less simplicity than in a yacht club at San Sebastian, Spain, where it was tried by Architects Labayen & Aizpurua in 1929. Architect William Mooser Jr. can thank his architect father for Aquatic Park's excessively ugly background: a chocolate factory designed...
...last fall, said he, Governor Charles Francis Hurley told him: "You're not an expert. . . . Mr. Varney is not an expert. We need a man to take charge of this." Selected to "take charge'' was Architect Edward T. P. Graham, who had previously done work for Boston politicians. Month later, said Commissioner Reardon, Governor Hurley telephoned him: "Mr. Graham is on his way to your office with the contracts. You stay there and sign them...
...honors list at the suggestion of the Prime Minister. A knighthood went to Stephen Joseph Pigott, managing director of the John Brown shipyards where they were built. The award of Commander of the Order of the British Empire went to George Patterson (Cunard-White Star's chief naval architect) and Donald M. Skiffington (John Brown yard director). Honest Tommy Rankin, foreman of the riveters who put the Queen Mary together, became a member of the Order of the British Empire...
...open court, a colonnade of 48 timberwork columns, four abreast and twelve in a row, rises 100 feet to symbolize the States of the Union. At once simple, honest, impressive and cheap, this stunt utilizes the sky and water of the Bay. On each side of the columns Architect Pflueger designed other open courts, surrounded by a light and trimly built structure of four-by-eight-foot plywood panels, a strong, beautiful surface, more native than stucco to forested California. About 20 nations of the Pacific, from Peru to Japan, are building more or less authentic pavilions along the Pacific...