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Fight Against Fat. In the defense field, AMF is the builder of the launching silos for the Titan and Atlas ICBMs, has also developed the rail-car launching system for the solid-fueled Minuteman ICBM...
With thanks to Lewis Carroll, we herewith comment on the meeting of our new carpenter and builder, Kennedy, with the walrus-mustachioed statesman, Macmillan...
...that mattered was the Beaux Arts in Paris, which in the age of the machine was dutifully teaching the new generation how to put up Greek temples and Renaissance palazzi. But beyond the walls of the Beaux Arts, a few men were stirring restively. Among them was a gifted builder named Auguste Ferret, who was the first to prove convincingly how effective the plebeian material of reinforced concrete could be. Another was Architect Peter Behrens of Berlin, whose glass-and-steel industrial buildings were pioneers. Jeanneret worked for both. He found Ferret's reinforced concrete studio in Paris, with...
...literary past and Poet Hart Crane was apotheosizing the Brooklyn Bridge, Mumford's Sticks and Stones, A Study of American Architecture and Civilization was the first, brash exploration of American town planning and building, ranging from the New England Common to the glories of Bridge Builder John A. Roebling. Mumford's fresh eye saw in the heavy, Romanesque masonry works of 19th century Architect Henry Hobson Richardson (Boston's Trinity Church), the work of "our first truly indigenous master-builder." With The Brown Decades (1865-1895), Mumford mined another overlooked lode, set in perspective Chicago Skyscraper Poet...
Artistic Disgrace. When he signed a three-year contract a year ago. Sold was hailed as the kind of orchestra builder Los Angeles had long needed and just the man to lead the orchestra into the city's new $10 million music center (opening in 1963). But citing a "serious breach of contract," Sold suddenly submitted his resignation by cable from Germany...