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...Cass Gilbert completed and President Wilson formally opened his most famed structure, the 792-ft. Woolworth Building, still sixth tallest in Manhattan. To critics who objected to the building's Gothic decorations and demanded a "new" style in ornaments, Cass Gilbert gave a reply which described his traditional, assured attitude toward architecture: "New schools of design come, with intervals of centuries between, by slow evolution, and can no more be created out of whole cloth than new social orders or systems of government. The problem of this great shaft cried aloud for some form of Gothic treatment...
Death, as it must to all men, came last week to Cass Gilbert, 74, architect, in Brockenhurst, England. Had not a sudden heart attack laid him low in a bedroom of pleasant, rambling Balmer Lawn Hotel, he, his wife and daughter would have left in two days for Southampton and the U. S. Behind him Cass Gilbert left many a great building to keep his memory alive through many a long year...
Editor of Tiny Tower is Bosco Cass, who uses her real name, Edna Cass Noll, only when signing the adult poetry she sometimes writes. She graduated seven years ago from Emerson College, where she gave weekly readings in Boston's Little Children's Theatre. Later Bosco Cass be came a performer in a Shubert musicomedy, a clothes model, a schoolteacher, a reader for a literary agent. Her notions for Tiny Tower she tries out on public school children. When they disapproved of a modernistic Santa Claus on the cover, she substituted an old-fashioned one, teasing...
Where the shallow, sandy River Platte debouches into the muddy Missouri is Plattsmouth, a neat little Nebraska town of 3,800 population, 21 mi. south of Omaha. Business used to be good in Plattsmouth. Cass County farmers were near enough to the city to diversify and the Burlington Railroad shops always took care of 400 or 500 men. Then for economy the Burlington began to consolidate the shops with its bigger ones in Lincoln. Some of the men followed the shops. Families doubled up and merchants cut down. Depression settled over Plattsmouth like a wintry fog. Six months ago when...
...Camp F12 Cass Lake, Minn...