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...reel less easily nowadays it is not because Rome is less intoxicating, but because they have a harder time freeing their minds of the parlous state of art in the modern world, the parlous state of the world itself. Last week a 27-year-old architect named Erling Frithjof Iversen, winner of this year's Prix de Rome, revealed the sobriety of his generation when he took the occasion of his victory to comment darkly on the dark outlook for modern architects...
...Prix de Rome is the choicest plum for U. S. art students who are under 30 and unmarried. It gives them two years at the American Academy in Rome, from $1,400 to $1,500 a year, studio and materials, freedom to travel. To win it, Architect Iversen got through preliminaries that eliminated 74 entrants, then worked for a month on a set problem in competition with eight other finalists. The problem : to design an open-air theatre for a city of 500,000, in an amusement park on the westerly edge of a hypothetical lake, with the stage mounted...
Engaged. Lorenz Iversen, sixtyish, Danish-born president of Pittsburgh's moneymaking Mesta Machine Co. (TIME, March 4), widower, father of five; and one Fleda Foust, fortyish, of Pittsburgh...
...HELEN IVERSEN DIXON...
...thanks to Daughter Helen Iversen Dixon for identifying her father in one of his rare photographs and for supplying an authentic description of his speech. The man at the centre of the Pittsburgh University Club party, whom TIME erroneously labeled as the president of Mesta Machine Co., was Jerzy Matusinski, then Polish Consul at Pittsburgh, now Consul General in Manhattan. Last week President Iversen reported that his company earned $1,517,250 last year from making steel machines, promised stockholders a full capacity year...