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...first-night crowd of 12,000 thronged happily through this new Kentucky home. At show's end it will be torn down, erected permanently in a Louisville suburb for sale at $8,250. Designed by Treanor & Fatio, swank Manhattan architectural firm, whose house commissions normally run from $25,000 up, it was the first LIFE house of 1940 to be completed...
...efficient, pleasant house. They will cost from $2,850 to $6,900 (with land, up to $10,000). Eight top-architectural firms designed the eight houses at nominal fees: Cameron Clark; Gardner A. Dailey; Holabird & Root; Howe & Brown; Perry, Shaw & Hepburn; Shaw, Naess & Murphy; Shreve, Lamb & Harmon; Treanor & Fatio...
Geneva, according to M. Fatio, is the meeting point of three different races, and three different languages, French, German, and Italian are spoken there. it is also an international political center; there are always 26 international bodies doing business in Geneva. The first international arbitration took place in 1872 in the Hall of the Alabana, when the United States arbitrated with England. At present the city is holding its own as an international center, for the first of September in every year the League of Nations assembles there...
...Fatio also described Geneva as a center of Calvinism. In speaking of a statue of Roger Williams erected there, he said that no picture of him was available, so the artist had no means of reproducing his likeness. Yet Americans, upon seeing the statue, always say "It looks just like...
...conclusion, M. Fatio spoke of the summer school of the University of Geneva, which has been organized with the main object of providing students of non-French-speaking countries with the opportunity of improving their practical knowledge of French...