Word: domes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Architect Hewlett, 64, has such a large bald head above his sparse frame that draughtsmen call him "The Great Dome." Like his predecessor he worked for a time in the office of the late famed Sanford White. He was born and still lives in Lawrence, L. I. For his ancestors was named the neighboring town of Hewlett. As architect he designed the Soldiers & Sailors monument in Albany, the Civil War Memorial in Philadelphia, the City Club of New York, the McKinley Memorial at Columbus, Ohio. As mural painter he has just completed four large historical panels for the Bronx County...
...Great Dome" is no modernist. Last week reporters learned that while he plans no change in the ideals of the Academy, he is sensitive to the taunts of young art students that American Academicians are mere copyists of classical models...
Between the University of Southern California and the family of famed Oilman Edward Laurence ("Teapot Dome") Doheny there has been close financial and sentimental association. Busy prospecting for gold in his youth, Oilman Doheny had no time to go beyond high school. But his son Edward Laurence Jr. ("Ned") went to U. S. C., was graduated in 1916. After serving as lieutenant in the U. S. Navy, he became a member of the University alumni council, later a University trustee. In February 1929 "Ned" Doheny, 36, was shot by his mad secretary, Robert Plunkett, who then killed himself. A great...
Buildings: 6) No. 60 Wall Street, Manhattan, first skyscraper to have double-deck elevators. 7) The dome on the planned Cathedral of Christ the King in Liverpool. With a 168-ft. diameter, it will be world's biggest. 8) The world's biggest single unit grain elevator at Albany, N. Y., covering eight acres, holding twice as much grain as all the elevators in New York Harbor. 9) The world's largest new type gas tank in Syracuse...
...spiritual love, many francs, pounds and dollars have been given to the Carmelites at Lisieux in whose daily prayers all subscribers are remembered. At Lisieux last week there was tangible result of this giving. Dedicated was the crypt of a great basilica which is to rise, with Romanesque dome and tower, in honor of St. Thérèse. Jean Cardinal Verdier, Archbishop of Paris, and the Bishop of Bayeux, presided. Came also many a prelate returning from the Eucharistic Congress in Dublin. There were open air masses, processions, lectures on the holy life of the Little Flower...