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...important influence, acknowledged with particular reverence by Architects Clark, Wurster and Dinwiddie, is that of an 80-year-old pioneer named Bernard Ralph Maybeck, Brooklyn-born son of a German woodcarver. who went to California in 1894 and later became the founder and director of the University of California's School of Architecture. A romanticist like Frank Lloyd Wright, he was the first architect to use unfinished California redwood as a decorative element in beautiful building, the first to wed his free, unconventional designs to the mountainous beauty of the California landscape. Maybeck is principally remembered for his dreamlike...
Douglas MacArthurs Chief of Staff is handsome, young (48) Major General Richard K. Sutherland. Commanding Corregidor is tall, thin Major General George F. Moore, a Coast Artilleryman since 1909. Carl Seals, Douglas MacArthur's closest friend and Adjutant General, was recently made a brigadier. Chief of engineers is Brooklyn-born Brigadier General (until recently Colonel) Hugh John Casey, of Casey's Cookies fame (TIME...
Died. Elsie Moore Torlonia, 52, Brooklyn-born hardware heiress who married and divorced the late Prince Torlonia of Italy; in Manhattan. Her son, Prince Allesandro, married the Infanta Beatriz, daughter of Alfonso XIII; her younger daughter, Donna Marina, is the wife of Tennist Francis X. Shields. Mrs. Torlonia dropped her title, regained her U.S. citizenship after her divorce...
After four months in Nazi prison camps, two U.S. foreign correspondents last week got their voices back. The two prisoners were Jay Allen, 41-year-old, Seattle-born veteran foreign correspondent (NANA) and 24-year-old, Brooklyn-born U.P. Correspondent Richard Hottelet, who steamed into New York Harbor aboard the U.S. transport West Point. Some of their experiences...
...want to and lay off when I want to. ∙∙ Matinee Idol Francis Lederer married Marion Irvine four days after his exwife, Marge, brought suit for $12,822.23. She said he signed a promissory note for that sum the day she sued for divorce last December. ∙∙ Brooklyn-born Sigrid Gurie (Algiers, Marco Polo) applied for U.S. citizenship, but not as a gag. The cinemactress Sam Goldwyn acclaimed as a genuine Scandinavian importation (like Garbo) had lost her citizenship when her parents took her back to their former home in Norway. ∙∙ Billy Rose is taking time...