Word: kirkman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Susie Kirk, 58-year-old soap heiress (Kirkman's Soap Flakes), faced the new year with at least one worry off her mind. A Chicago court saw her point when she pointed out that money isn't what it used to be and it costs more now to make ends meet. She thus won a boost in her annual trust allowance-from a grinding $30,866 to a humane...
...headed the planning team, U.S. Architect Wallace Kirkman Harrison, had expected criticism; Rockefeller Center, which Harrison helped design, was now a much admired part of Manhattan's jagged-edged landscapes but it had raised storms of protest back in 1931. Within Harrison's ten-man team there was a basic unanimity; all ten shared his liking for strict functionalism. Among them: Brazil's brilliant young (39) Oscar Niemeyer, and France's Le Corbusier (real name, Charles Edouard Jeanneret), who invented functionalism's favorite phrase when he described modern houses as "machines for living...
...Appointed Assistant Secretary of State Nelson A. Rockefeller's great & good friend Wallace Kirkman Harrison, 49, as the $10,000-a-year Director of Inter-American Affairs. No career diplomat, Appointee Harrison is a Manhattan architect, co-designer of Rockefeller Center and the New York World's Fair Trylon & Perisphere...