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Died. Captain John Lake Young, 84, builder in 1906 of Atlantic City's Million Dollar Pier; in Atlantic City, N. J. "Cap" Young's home, surrounded by a lawn and marble statuary, standing in the middle of the pier and over the sea, is registered in Atlantic City directories as "No. 1 Atlantic Ocean...
When Jules Romains published the first volume of his Men of Good Will he announced in sonorous phrases his purpose- to write a vast work in which modern French society would be the hero. He might be compared with the builder of a city who lays out his streets in advance, builds one house beside the other methodically, pausing from time to time to call attention to the increase in population. But in building his city of Jefferson, Miss, in six novels and three books of short stories, William Faulkner has followed a far more devious path. In effect...
...street 15 years ago, the name Frank Lloyd Wright meant, if anything, the builder of a hotel in Tokyo which by some engineering magic withstood the great earthquake of 1923. To the U. S. man-in-the-subway, his name was associated with scandalous episodes ground from the inhuman human-interest mill of the tabloid newspapers. A decade ago, when the brand-new International Style in architecture was seriously taken up by U. S. architects, many of them were surprised to discover that Wright had been its forerunner 30 years before, that by great European architects such...
...Natural Builder, The valley in which Architect Wright lives was settled by his Welsh grandfather when it was wild. Wright was born there and grew up on the farm of one of his uncles. His first adventurous piece of architecture was a windmill. He felt and has developed a stronger sense of the earth's reality than most poets. Wright has conceived himself a participant in Nature, not a communicant. "Man takes a positive hand in creation," he has said, "whenever he puts a building upon the earth beneath...
...Taliesin Architect Wright has cultivated such a community in embryo. Guests there nearly always feel a distinct sense of translation to a better world. One cause of this is undoubtedly the house itself, with its flowing lines and receptiveness to the landscape. Another is undoubtedly the house's builder. Gracious, mischievous and immaculate at 68, Frank Lloyd Wright has little of the patriarch about him except his fine white hair. His obvious and arrogant courage has the abstract indestructibility of a triangle. He thinks of himself as in the "centre line" of Usonian independence that runs through Thoreau...