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Sculptor Epstein was more interested in his customers, Mr. & Mrs. Alfred Charles Bossom of swanky No. 5 Carlton Gardens, London. They got Genesis for their...
...architect, an alderman, a man of wealth is clever little Purchaser Bossom. Like Sculptor Epstein he is of Semitic descent. His wealth derived from his conception and industrious execution of the idea of building skyscrapers like a graduated pile of boxes with the smallest on top - the "set back'' style to provide air and light. He designed the Seaboard National Bank in New York (Seaboard Pres ident Samuel Bayne is his father-in-law), the Magnolia Petroleum Building in Dallas, Tex. Other important Bossom commissions in the U. S. included the restoration of Fort Ticonderoga for ex-Congress...
...criticize them, last week visited an extraordinary exhibition in a Manhattan building modestly called "Corona Mundi" (crown of the world) on Riverside Drive. It was an exhibition of skyscrapers*- models, photographs and designs -assembled by an architect whose livelihood and reputation are in the building of skyscrapers, Alfred C. Bossom. When Manhattan should have gazed its fill, the exhibition was to go on tour...
Architect Bossom said ingenuously: "The American people build skyscrapers because they are unsophisticated." Architect Harvey Wiley Corbett, in a written debate held by the New York Times, suggested what monuments skyscrapers would be to humanity if anything should ever happen to the race: "The explorer of a thousand years hence might piece together the fragments of our life gathered in one skyscraper and know the whole as though he had lived among us, from the cafeteria and nickel-in-the-slot telephones on the first floor, to the final office on the ultimate last floor...
...Donald Bossom Fleming '25, of West Newton...