Word: grosvenors
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...well, has brought down the wrath of modern purists, who favor glass and steel even if it clashes with every building in the area. Saarinen's answer was to show what he meant in his plan for the new design of the U.S. embassy on London's Grosvenor Square by keeping the structure modern but keying the floor levels and spacings of the front façade to the surrounding Georgian buildings. He also got off his mind another pet peeve: that too much modern ages poorly. He designed the embassy in Portland stone, London's traditional...
London's historic Grosvenor Square has been a stamping ground for Americans ever since 1785, when John Adams, first U.S. Ambassador to the Court of St. James's, moved in at No. 9, on the corner of Brook Street. But though U.S. offices clustered so thickly around the square in World War II that Londoners called the area "Eisenhowerplatz" (now "Little America"), the U.S. never got around to building its own embassy. Last week London buzzed with the news that in Grosvenor Square the U.S. will 1) build a new $3,000,000, five-story embassy, probably...
...Grosvenor Dale, Conn...
...Beck, the ruddy-faced president of the A.F.L. Teamster Union, could easily be mistaken for a millionaire. Teamster Beck has several personal business interests on the side: he owns large chunks of Seattle real estate; he is board chairman of Kellerblock Corp., which owns Seattle's 18-story Grosvenor House apartments, and, until recently, he operated Northwest Securities Corp., an auto finance company. His family has interests in other enterprises, including beer and beverage distributorships. Last week it appeared that Beck put over one of his best business deals at the union's expense...
...editors have ever waited so long for a promotion as National Geographic Associate Editor John Oliver La Gorce, 73. For the last 49 years he has been second in command on the prosperous Geographic under Gilbert Grosvenor, the magazine's boss since 1899. Last week Editor La Gorce finally got what he was waiting for. The Geographic board made La Gorce editor and president to take the place of Editor Grosvenor, 78, who resigned. Grosvenor steps up to be chairman of the board of trustees of the Geographic, which he has built from a tiny monthly with 900 circulation...