Word: architects
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...summoned an architect to draw plans, and eventually Waterville gave him the money for a 650-acre site. At the very bottom of the depression, he launched a fund-raising campaign. On the day of his opening dinner in Boston, President Roosevelt closed the nation's banks...
...Houston, the city council voted to accept a new $2,700,000 police headquarters and jail, but withheld $25,000 from Architect Kenneth Frankheim's fee because he had his name engraved in marble on the front of the building, put the names of councilmen on a bronze plaque inside...
William Ellery Hale, of Pasadena, the son of famed Astronomer George Ellery Hale, who built Mount Wilson Observatory, has worked in an architect's firm, a brokerage house, a bank, is now assistant treasurer of the Thermador Electrical Manufacturing Co. Married, three sons (the oldest, Princeton '50). He recalls: "I was always messy and late sending my laundry . . . so I consistently borrowed underpants and starched shirts from Steve. He kept me well laundered for four years." Says Hale: "For the first time, I'm faced with the rather frightening possibility of voting for a Democratic
...Architect László designs his houses down to the last ashtray or built-in Kleenex holder. He protests that money is not everything: "One million dollars will not build the perfect house. You somehow can't put everything you want into it. It's largely a matter of taste, judgment and talent." But money helps...
Among his fanciest projects: the million-dollar Wichita Falls palace of Texas Oilman Charles McGaha (built in collaboration with Architect Allen Siple), which includes a horseshoe-shaped swimming pool, Lucite-legged chairs, hand-painted draperies, and a radio-controlled main gate;* and Movie Producer William Perlberg's cozier ($250,000) rambler, with swimming pool, projection room, Lucite wastebaskets and hip-high combination shelf and hearthstone. Other László clients: Gloria Vanderbilt Stokowski, Freeman (Amos 'n' Andy) Gosden, Barbara Hutton, Sonja Henie, Hollywood Director William Wyler...