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Thus, in 1853, English Critic John Ruskin lectured an Edinburgh audience. The popular concept that the roof is the very essence of architecture became so deeply ingrained that Louis Sullivan, Chicago's famed skyscraper builder, felt it necessary to crown his tall buildings with huge, floriated lids. Frank Lloyd Wright made the roof the dominating motif of his houses. But as modern architects worked away at the box-on-stilts ideal, the roof all but disappeared from view...
...Albano, near Rome, has worked in the church's administrative headquarters, the Curia, for the past 30 years. As vice regent of the diocese of Rome, he was in charge of the recent synod of the Roman clergy (TIME, Feb. 8), has made an impressive record as a builder of churches and organizer of new parishes...
...Shields & Co. (TIME, Feb. 15). After helping to close the Chris-Craft deal, famed Yachtsman Cornelius ("Corny") Shields Sr., a Shields & Co. partner, pondered a way to see Brunswick into the boat business. As a director of the Owens Yacht Co., the nation's No. 2 builder of pleasure crafts (1959 sales: $15.3 million), Shields set about bringing the two together. This week Brunswick announced that, through an exchange of stock worth $16 million, it would take over Owens Yacht Co. The four Owens brothers (Charles, Norman, John and William), who own 70% of the stock, will receive...
...Manhattan skyline is an ever-changing panorama that has been pierced by 132 new office buildings since 1947 in the world's biggest building boom. One of the men who has done the most to change the skyline is a quiet, studious owner-builder named Erwin S. (for Service) Wolf son. Last week Wolfson, 57, was busy preparing for the biggest building job of its kind ever undertaken in New York City: a 59-story, $100 million Grand Central City that will rise just north of Manhattan's Grand Central Terminal...
...Caravelle made its first big U.S. breakthrough. In Denver, United Airlines announced a $60 million order to Sud for 20 Caravelles (with an option for 20 more), the first time that United has bought anything but U.S. planes. Another Caravelle has been sold in the U.S. to Jet-Engine Builder General Electric Co., which will use the plane as a flying showroom for its new CJ-805-23 aft-fan engine, which delivers more thrust for lower fuel consumption than standard jet engines. G.E. sees a bright future for the medium-range French plane, and wants its engine to replace...