Word: forded
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Architecture, thumbed through more than 200 sets of plans and photographs before they made their choice. The runaway winners, announced in Washington this week: the San Francisco firm of Wurster, Bernardi & Emmons, which not only got a First Honor Award for its $258,000 "Thinkers' Shangri-La"- the Ford Foundation's hilltop Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, near Stanford University-but also picked up two merit awards for houses in Stockton and Sausalito, Calif...
...Ford Foundation's Advanced Study Center, the firm, led by Senior Partner William Wilson Wurster, 60, dean of the University of California's School of Architecture, put together a miniature campus in six months from commission to moving day. Designed as a retreat for scholars, it is built around restful individual studies for the 38 residents, done in unpainted redwood, with secluded patios and large windows looking out over the lonely hills...
...Wurster: "One doesn't want regionalism for its own sake, but only if it fits the problem." The firm's record to date has brought commissions for everything from master plans for 21 Air Force bases in the U.S. to a $14 million community project of the Ford assembly plant at Milpitas, Calif. What pleases the partners most is that clients no longer come in asking for something "modern." Says Wurster: "You can be sure that American colonists never asked for a 'colonial' house...
...lights stabbing the sky over Hollywood and Vine one night last week signaled the opening of a new office building that is strange even for Hollywood: a 13-story smogscraper, round as a record. On the street below, Jane Russell, Connie Haines, Dick Haymes, Gordon MacRae and Tennessee Ernie Ford strolled over a red carpet into the $2,000,000 reinforced-concrete tower as the crowd cheered and loudspeakers blared...
...THOUSAND times a day. U.S. jukeboxes moaned out Sixteen Tons, a Tin Pan Alley folk song about a coal miner who is soul-deep in debt to his employer. The song landed with a sixteen-ton impact because of its tootling orchestration and Tennessee Ernie Ford's richly lugubrious style. To the jukebox generation the words were all but meaningless. Yet, as late as the 1920s, the ballad's bitter plaint was a real-life refrain to millions of U.S. workers from Georgia's green-roofed cotton villages to Oregon's bleak lumber settlements. Those workers...