Word: cotta
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...horns of Cuba's dilemma last week were the two terra cotta towers of Havana's elaborate Hotel National. There 400 army and navy officers who refused to accept the student-supported government of President Ramon Grau San Martin, some in undershirts, some in crumpled linen suits but all with thumping big pistols at their waists, were marooned, peeling their own potatoes, running the elevators, making the beds. The guests, including U. S. Ambassador Sumner Welles, had departed. So had the staff, with the exception of two managers who felt a mariner's duty to stick...
...After the War, Bufano moved to San Francisco, married; had a child, deserted wife & child to study Terra Cotta glazing and firing in China." This is inaccurate. Bufano was not married until 1925, then to Virginia Howard, in Houston, Texas, by whom he had a son, Erskine Scott Wood Bufano, born in August 1928 at Ross, Calif. Mother and son have been residents of Mill Valley, Calif, for several years...
...apprenticed to a marble mason. With his master he worked for years restoring the balustrades and ornaments of local churches in Cremona, Piacenza, Parma-restorations that not only copied the details but imitated the patina of nearby originals. Soon he was restoring not only marble but bronze, terra cotta and wood...
After the War, Bufano moved to San Francisco, married, had a child, deserted wife & child to study terra cotta glazing and firing in China. He returned a convert to Oriental philosophy, living entirely on nuts, and set up a studio in the old Hawaiian building, left over from the Panama-Pacific Exposition of 1915. His unworldly attitude soon caused the sheriff of San Francisco to attach all his personal belongings. Nut-eating Beniamino Bufano moved to Paris...
...music- enthusiast he was able to reconcile both factions. A $4.000,000 bond issue was floated, one-third of which the city subscribed. Architect Arthur Brown Jr. with Albert Lansburgh collaborating designed twin buildings (one for veterans' organizations, one for opera). They are dignified granite and terra cotta structures which harmonize with the new City Hall at the centre of the civic group which includes the State Building, the Auditorium and the Public Library. For its maintenance the opera house was voted an additional annual public grant of $65.000 which the city hopes to get back in rent from...