Word: hitchcock
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Henry-Russell Hitchcock, Jr., treats of the work of H. H. Richardson, the architect of Sever and Austin Halls here, and considers the skyscraper as one of our distinctive contributions to world-culture. Often Mr. Hitchcock sounds like Ruskin or Lewis Mumford, as when he speaks as a "functionalist": "The new Classical buildings at Washington, the new Gothic or Georgian buildings at the leading universities . . offer no new picture beyond that of the intentions of the nineties. All are splendid, expensive, and meaningless...
UNROLLING THE MAP-Leonard Outhwaite-Reynal & Hitchcock ($3.75)- Brief history of exploration (2750 B.C.-1935 A.D.), graphically illustrated with 56 maps...
...sheet-covered bodies Dr. Charles E. Norris, the city's longtime Chief Medical Examiner, lifted a sheet, quickly put it down again. "My God!" cried Dr. Norris. "It's Mrs. Peabody. I knew her well." Few minutes later Mrs. Peabody's brother, famed Poloist Tommy Hitchcock Jr., claimed her body and that of her husband, Manhattan Architect Julian L. Peabody. Other notable victims: Professor Herdman Fitzgerald Cleland of Williams College, in charge of a student paleontological expedition to Yucatan; three Williams seniors, including Manhattan Socialite William Dwight Symmes; Rev. Dr. Francis L. Frost, longtime rector...
...Mount Pleasant, N. Y., Mrs. Hope Hitchcock, answering her neighbors' third court action against her prize English sheep dogs, testified that since the court had told her to get rid of all but a "reasonable number," she had sold 21 of her 40 dogs, quieted the rest by bedding herself in the kennels at night. In St. Paul, an unidentified woman bought an extra seat for the Civic Opera Association's performance of Rigoletto, plumped her dog in it "because he loves opera...
...FINCHLEY'S HOLIDAY-Victor Canning-Reynal & Hitchcock ($2.50). A British Caspar Milquetoast offers to watch a stranger's expensive automobile. When he falls asleep in the back, he is stolen with the car. His subsequent adventures remind readers of J. B. Priestley's hearty-humorous The Good Companions...