Word: corbett
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...entire U. S. Here would be the offices and broadcasting studios of NBC, RCA, RKO; a huge vaudeville theatre, a huge picture theatre, additional buildings for banks, shops, restaurants, offices. At John Reynard Todd's suggestion, three firms of architects were appointed to work with him: Reinhard & Hofmeister; Corbett, Harrison & MacMurray; Raymond Hood, Godley & Fouilhoux...
...Commission: Chairman Harvey Wiley Corbett (New York); Edward Herbert Bennett (Chicago); Hubert Burnham (Chicago); John Augur Holabird (Chicago); Raymond Mathewson Hood (New York); Ralph Thomas Walker (New York); Paul Philippe Cret (Philadelphia); Arthur Brown Jr. (San Francisco...
...sister Elizabeth Jane also became a doctor, married a doctor, bore Harvey Wiley Corbett, famed Manhattan architect...
Engineers and constructors of the Radio City are Todd, Robertson & Todd. Architects include the firms of Reinhard & Hoffmeister, Raymond Hood, Godley & Fouilhoux and Corbett, Harrison & MacMurray. No one in this congress of talent will admit being either the originator or the "executive architect'' of the project. It was learned last week, however, that it was Senior Partner John Raynard Todd. of Todd, Robertson & Todd who suggested the radio-city idea to Mr. Rockefeller and who persuaded Vice President David Sarnoff of the R. C. A. and President Hiram S. Brown of Radio-Keith Orpheum to join the project...
...soap torso done in a Greek manner. That the contest had left the realm of advertising and ventured into the realm of pure art seemed indicated by the jury of award which listed among others Sculptors Gutzon Borglum, Lorado Taft, Artist Charles Dana Gibson, Architect Harvey Wiley Corbett. Many of the competing sculptors were obviously serious in their work. The work of some was creditable. To most, however (including Colyumist Robert Littell of the New York World who suggested that the advantage of soap statuary was that it would float in case of flood whereas the marbles of Praxiteles would...