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...swimming, baseball; the Gold Cup race for speedboats, and, dear to the heart of Mr. Britten who was once an able boxer himself, the finals of the scouting force boxing matches. James Joseph Tunney, retired Marine, would referee and give to the heavyweight winner the statue of James J. Corbett which Mr. Britten won as U. S. amateur lightweight champion back in 1894. To Mr. Britten everything looked bright except the weather...
Enthusiastic about the Magic House (which will sell for less than $5,000) was well-known Modernist Architect Harvey Wiley Corbett, co-architect of the Chicago World's Fair and of Manhattan's much- criticized Radio City (TIME, March 16). Said...
...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...
...critics had an immediate reason for hurrying to inspect the model and renderings exhibited last week. Two of the three architects of Radio City-Raymond Mathewson Hood and Harvey Wiley Corbett-are also architects of the much publicized 1933 Chicago World's Fair. Fortnight ago at a meeting to protest the exclusion of the modernist pioneer Frank Lloyd Wright from the commission of Fair architects (TIME, March 9) the Fair designs of Architects Hood & Corbett were bitterly attacked as "fake modernism," "eclectic shams," "a pretty cardboard picture of ancient wall masses...
...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...