Word: gruen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...called to the telephone, delighted the company with her breezy informality by piping: "Excuse me, I have to go. My husband is calling me." Touring an American National Red Cross center with Red Cross President Alfred Gruenther, she asked if blood donors later got brandy with their coffee. General Gruen-ther told her no, added: "I understand you've got quite a brandy in Greece." Said Her Majesty: "It's dynamite...
...problems of traffic congestion and public reaction to planning were stressed by the two other speakers on the program, Victor Gruen, an architect, and Andrew Heiskell, publisher of Life magazine. Heiskell emphasized the opposition encountered by city planners, and quoted early abuse of Rockefeller Center by the New York Times and Walter Lippmann, who called Radio City Music Hall "a pedestal for a peanut...
...Gruen called for more complete rehabilitation projects, and showed slides with plans for the ideal city. With 80 million cars expected on the road by 1967, he said, present urban forms were no longer practical. Citing the statistic that one person is killed or injured every six minutes, he urged "a peaceful co-existence between automobiles and the human race...
...difficulty in present urban forms, Gruen said, is that the twofold purposes of streets--providing shopping centers as well as a rapid flow of traffic--are antithetical. According to his plan, residential "clusters" of buildings would form "constellations" around a social center. Traffic would emerge from these clusters into "freeways," and then into large loop and belt arteries...
Reviewing Gruen's plan, Juan Luis Sert, Dean of the Graduate School of Design and chairman of last night's discussion, expressed the hope that the conference, which ends today, would result in a "clear and concise statement about planning philosophy...