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...critics had an immediate reason for hurrying to inspect the model and renderings exhibited last week. Two of the three architects of Radio City-Raymond Mathewson Hood and Harvey Wiley Corbett-are also architects of the much publicized 1933 Chicago World's Fair. Fortnight ago at a meeting to protest the exclusion of the modernist pioneer Frank Lloyd Wright from the commission of Fair architects (TIME, March 9) the Fair designs of Architects Hood & Corbett were bitterly attacked as "fake modernism," "eclectic shams," "a pretty cardboard picture of ancient wall masses...
Typical of Orlando Weber was his action when Dr. Carl Bosch of I. G. Farbenindustrie invited him to inspect the big nitrogen fixation plant at Leunawerk, Germany. To Leunawerk went Mr. Weber, but he refused to inspect the plant except from the outside. This was neither modesty nor lack of grace, but unwillingness to accept a courtesy he could not return. All the world knows about Leunawerk; it may not know about Hopewell...
Inventor Davis began experiments in aeronautics before the Wrights made their first flight, and exhibited a model in the New York automobile show of 1901. His son Albert last week declared he would have engineers inspect his father's designs with a view toward developing them...
Many a citizen of Udine, Italy, home of giant Fisticuffer Primo Camera, made the pilgrimage to nearby Gemona to inspect a colossal statue of Camera, whom they rank with their great men. They voted to erect the statue, when completed, in an Udine square...
...School will keep open house from 2 until 6 o'clock next Monday, January 12, for all those who wish to inspect the new theatre. The performances at the end of the coming week are to be attended only by members of the School and their guests, since an absence of the necessary precautions against fire make a public presentation impossible. The building has been leased from the City of Cambridge for a limited period of time, which makes any permanent fire equipment a poor investment...