Word: johnsons
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Hugh Simons Gibson, U. S. Ambassador to Belgium who, at Geneva in May, first told the world about President Hoover's Yardstick (TIME, May 6), headed for London to confer. Waiting for him. Ambassador Dawes, like any tourist, lunched at the Cheshire Cheese in Fleet Street, sat in Dr. Johnson's chair, ate two helpings of veal pie, smoked a long churchwarden pipe...
...regular Martinelli summer occupation. It is good for the girth. Among the regular Martinelli outpourings will be Manon Lescaut, Samsonn et Dalila, Aida. Curly-haired Tenor Martinelli returned, not long ago, from his first-in-16-years visit to Italy. Near him in Winnetka will be versatile Tenor Edward Johnson...
...titles from his remarkable collection of contemporary Elizabethan literature. These include his exception ally full series of first editions of BenJonson's plays, which heretofore has been one of the noticeable weak spots in the library. For nearly all the other dramatists who were contemporaries of Shakespeare and Johnson. Harvard has long had a very strong position judged by the early editions, and this has now been made much more secure by the addition of all the plays in the White collection which were not already at Harvard...
Last week Dean Meeks heard that Burton Kenneth Johnson, 22, son of a Chicago dentist, had won the 1929 Prix de Rome in Architecture-third to be given to a Yale student in the past five years. True, Architect Johnson first went to Yale last fall, after four years architectural study at the University of Illinois, where he won honorable mention in last year's Prix Competition. But the honor of tuning him to prize-winning pitch was Yale...
There were 47 participants, seven finalists after preliminary competitions. The final project called for a giant art centre with galleries, auditorium, offices, library, studios. Architect Johnson rendered a rectangular two-story building with a Doric portico, a serene, traditional design with much unadorned wall space. He wins a prize valued at $8,000-including residence and studio for three years at the American Academy in Rome, transportation funds, a yearly stipend...