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Conservative architects (who appropriately had the ground floor) merely tiled the walls with framed photographs of colonial, baroque, gothic and romanesque structures-all built in the U. S. since 1900. Upstairs, modernists ran hog-wild. Their slick, streamlined exhibit had models of their buildings and shrewd camera shots, featured a credo that made traditionalists sputter. Sample sputter-causer: "The heritage of our generation is the accumulated rubbish of a century of fake fronts...
With the onset of World War II and the promise of a whopping diversion of tourist business to Florida, Mr. Washburn last fall took a full-page ad in the New York Times, offered Hog Island to anyone with a tropical yearning and $150,000 to spare. The ad brought scores of queries, a few prospective buyers, including an Italian from Manhattan who wanted to found a new Roman Empire...
Year ago a shrewd, rich St. Petersburg, Fla. real-estate promoter named Clinton Mozley Washburn picked up a subtropical island for a figurative song. Three hundred acres of tangled mangrove, pine, palm and sandy beach, just off the Florida Gulf Coast 23 miles northwest of Tampa, the property (Hog Island to the natives; Caladesi to mapmakers) apparently wasn't worth much in the nude. Promoter Washburn, who holds a big backlog of Florida real estate (including some $250,000 worth of cheaply bought Gulf Coast property), saw possibilities in Hog Island...
...with applications for some 2,000 suites. Laying out $15,000 to clean up the island, build shacks and a recreation hall, Mr. Washburn, a quiet, thin man with brown eyes, greying hair and the demeanor of a deacon, set out in search of a king & queen for Hog Island, rechristened Honeymoon Isle...
...Belgian affiliate the United States Lines last week sold eight battered Hog Islanders, none built later than 1921, all doomed to be scrapped within two years. Price for the lot: $4,000,000, something like five times their scrap value. Of the 86 American ships put out of European service by the Neutrality Act, this left only three still unemployed...