Word: designer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Airports as Ports of Entry" will be the subject of a lecture to be delivered by S. S. Hanks '12, in Pierce Hall, Harvard Engineering School, at 4.30 o'clock this afternoon. This will be the first of a series of four lectures by Hanks on airport problems of design, construction, and management for the engineer, architect, and business executive. They will be illustrated with slides and films...
...same time President Angell made it known that the trustees of the estate of John W. Sterling (Yale 1864) had given another $3,000,000 for the new graduate school quadrangle. Architect James Gamble Rogers will design the buildings, which will stretch along York Street from "Mory's" (famed eating place) to Tower Boulevard. Sterling benefactions to Yale include the $7,500,000 Sterling Library, Sterling law buildings, scholarships, endowments...
Once Miss Bendelari lived in Joplin, Mo. She went to school in Toronto: studied, worked at costume design in New York. In 1924, vacatoning in France, she learned that French shoes (broad, short) did not fit the feet (long, narrow) of U. S. women. To please them, she borrowed $1,000 from her father, set a solitary shoemaker to work with designs of her own. Among the most expensive in Paris, her shoes were immediately successful: for a while she was manager, packer, messenger, saleswoman; soon she had two factories in France, a small mauve-and-gold shop in Paris...
...able architects. John Augur Holabird's father, William Holabird, established the firm of Holabird & Roche early in the century. Son John, 43, was born in Evanston, went to the Hill School, to West Point, to the Beaux-Arts. In 1919 he joined his father's firm, helped design the Chicago Temple Building, Grant Park Stadium (Soldier Field, famed scene of Tunney's second victory over Dempsey), Palmer House, Stevens Hotel, all of Chicago...
...book are called: The Mookse and the Gripes, The Muddest Thick That Was Ever Heard Dump, The Ondt and the Gracehoper. So far, only Parts I and II of Work in Progress have been printed: in transition, experimentalist quarterly published in Paris. Say those who profess to understand the design of the whole: Hero H. C. Earwicker, onetime postman, hotelkeeper, shopkeeper, now working in Guinness's brewery, is a Dublin citizen, but a native of Norway. He is married, has children; but his past is not blameless. A girl named Anna Livia haunts his slumbers; he has been guilty...