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...encouraging fact appeared two years ago in the appointment of Bauhaus-Founder Walter Gropius, professor in Harvard's architectural department, last year in the opening of Chicago's New Bauhaus. This week it appeared again when 33-year-old President Henry Townley Heald of Chicago's Armour Institute announced that his tough technical school had hired Ludwig Mies van der Rohe of Berlin to direct its school of architecture...
...beautiful house, at Brno, Czechoslovakia. He was Director of the Dessau Bauhaus from 1930 to 1933. On his first visit to the U. S. last year, his friend John Augur Holabird of the esteemed Chicago firm of Holabird & Root interested Mies van der Rohe in Chicago, the Armour Institute in Mies van der Rohe...
With Architect van der Rohe at Armour this month will be two other old Bauhaus men, Ludwig Hilberseimer, expert on city planning, and Walter Peterhans, technician in photography. Under this triumvirate Armour students will tackle a trivium: materials, functions, design. As to what is expected of them: "[This educational method] would serve no purpose," says Mies van der Rohe, "unless ... it were to lead without fail to a clear and un equivocal spiritual orientation...
Except for five-time Champion Walter Hagen, who preferred the sidelines after his recently completed round-the-world exhibition tour, and onetime Champion Tommy Armour, who was ill, all the topflight professional golfers of the U. S. met last week in the Poconos, on the Shawnee Country Club course. It was their one big match-play tournament of the year: the championship of the Professional Golfers Association...
...Columbia Broadcasting System, Inc., Consolidated Oil Corp., Armour & Co., West Indies Sugar Corp., Hayden, Stone & Co., North American Co.-were added to the long and varied list. "He got the Transcontinental & Western Air, Inc. business away from one of the old-established air insurance firms and split it with Fred Roper. Fred is the son of Daniel C. Roper, Secretary of Commerce-in charge of the regulation of aeronautics...