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...Frank Lloyd Wright arrived in Chicago in the spring of 1887 with three years of engineering school behind him in Madison. U. S. architecture was then on the rise from a period of post-Civil War jerry-building, and with the death of a great and sound Easterner, Henry Hobson Richardson, the year before, Chicago, rising from its ruins, had become the centre of excitement. Richardson's successor as No. i U. S. architect was an immaculate, brown-eyed little French-Irishman of haughty brilliance named Louis Henry Sullivan. Young Frank Wright had not been in Chicago a year...
...snowy coast-range mountains near the headwaters of the chilly Siletz River, 90 miles southwest of Portland, Ore., is the Cobbs & Mitchell sawmill. There Dorothy Anne, 10-year-old daughter of Cook House & Dormitory Supervisor Henry Hobson, recently launched a one-sheet, the mimeographed Valsetz Star, which carries community intelligence to the families of 200 burly mill hands and loggers. Many a newspaper owner might wish himself able to resolve his publishing worries as simply and succinctly as did Publisher Dorothy Anne in the Star's latest issue. She wrote: "SPECIAL EDITOR'S NOTE: this...
...pounds--Ross (H) defeated VerBurg: referee's decision. 125 pounds--Dailey (H) defeated Stone: fall, over time period. 135 pounds--Al Richter (H) defeated Hobson: referee's decision. 145 pounds--Lindinfelser (H) defeated Cohen: fall, 7m., 14s. 155 pounds--Goslin (H) defeated Cetter: referee's decision. 165 pounds--Doughaday (H) defeated Vanderpoel: referee's decision. 175 pounds--Kidder (H) defeated Lucas: referee's decision. Heavy-weight--Boston (H) defeated Martin: fall...
...getting down to business. Bishops and their wives dressed up in their considerable best to dine formally at the Netherland Plaza. Members of the General Convention's lower legislative house, clerical and lay deputies, gazed appreciatively at such convention exhibits as the handsome trailer which is host Bishop Hobson's Cathedral (TIME, April 19), the posters and photographs of the zealous, two-year-old Church Society for College Work, the "barracks" of the hardworking, uniformed Church Army which resembles the Salvation Army...
...missionary body. To call the presiding bishop an archbishop as was suggested in 1934, is neither recommended nor disapproved in the commission's report. Presiding Bishop Perry's term is up, and last week he was thought agreeable to being reelected. Other likely candidates: Bishop Cook, Bishop Hobson, Bishop Henry Knox Sherrill of Boston, Bishop George Ashton Oldham of Albany, Bishop George Craig Stewart of Chicago...