Word: design
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Conductor Willem Mengelberg's. Beethoven's Overture to Coriolanus opens on a unison C: C stands for Combine. What more appropriate, then, than that the mighty C of the Overture should commence the first program of the combined New York Philharmonic-Symphony Society? By accident or design, Conductor Mengelberg drew a pretty symbol from symphony music, that veritable library of symbols. Some 24 musicians new to the Philharmonic have been placed under Mengelberg's guiding hand as a result of the merger last spring of the New York Philharmonic and the New York Symphony- (TIME, April...
...opened a new display last Saturday, the most interesting paintings being a collection of watercolors by Homer and Sargent. A valuable Sixteenth Century tapestry depicting Hercules against a verdure background, the gift of Augustus Hemenway '75, has been hung in the great hall. This tapestry is particularly good in design and distinct in color...
...until last year,-Stockbridge artists displayed their wares. Dean of the colony, of course, was Sculptor Daniel Chester French. Every colonist, every tourist, knew his Minute Man at Concord, N. H. It was in his Stockbridge studio that he modeled the great Lincoln of the Memorial at Washington. The design of the Minute Man was accepted in 1873. Last week, his daughter, Margaret French Cresson, viewed with pride his latest figure in bronze. It was called Whence, Whither, Wherefore. As chairman of the exhibition, Daughter could draw attention to Father's fine mastery of detail. But she allowed others...
...exposition hall were 300 brightly colored booths, housing nearly every design of plane or accessory on the market. A professor demonstrated a fool-proof self-landing, self-balancing plane, dubbed "the flying pickle...
...Angeles, pride of the Navy, only rigid airship† in the U. S., is going to have two sisters. Last week, a judging board of the Navy announced that the designs submitted by Goodyear-Zeppelin Corp. of Akron, Ohio, a subsidiary of potent Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co., are better than those of a half dozen competitors.* It seemed almost certain that Goodyear would be awarded the contracts for the two airships, that work would begin this autumn and the first new giant silver cigar would take the air in 1930. Goodyear quoted $7,950,000 as the price...