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...picked up U.S. Air Force Sergeant Giacomo Recevuto, of Brooklyn. And that afternoon Izmir Police Chief Nevzat Emrealp informed NATO authorities that he wanted to have "a little talk" about currency black-marketing with two other U.S. sergeants, James D. King of Ruth, Miss, and Joseph Proietti of Mt. Kisco, N.Y. Emrealp did not mention that his men had already extracted from the Turkish manager of the NATO noncoms' club in Izmir a confession implicating King-a confession subsequently repudiated by the club manager, who, as a result of his "questioning," was still in the hospital. Assured that King...
Stone himself turned out advertising layouts and designed lighting fixtures. In the Richard H. Mandel house at Mt. Kisco, N.Y., he produced in 1935 the first modern house in the International Style (as contrasted with Frank Lloyd Wright's indigenous style) to be designed by a U.S.-born architect. In the bachelor's retreat he built for A. Conger Goodyear at Old Westbury, on Long Island, he deftly applied modern principles to an intimate, luxurious small house. His collection of medals and awards grew through the years. Two Architectural League Gold Medal winners are now rated as architectural...
...Russian-born painter, sculptor and draftsman, who painted (1935-40) the 20 huge murals in the Department of Justice library in Washington, at one time received $10,000-$12,000 a painting, his work growing abruptly more impressionistic and evocative during World War II; after long illness; in Mount Kisco...
After his sumptuous Mt. Kisco, N.Y. home was razed by fire last spring with a $75,000 loss in art alone, Producer Billy Rose found just the thing to provide a handsome frame for his bride, onetime Movie Beauty Joyce Mathews: a 40-room, $430,000 whitestone mansion in Manhattan. Said Billy: "We'll only use about a dozen rooms to live in. Some of the 40 are servants' rooms, wine cellars, that kind of thing. It's not as frightening as it sounds...
...Wood, 82, slim, bushy-browed Manhattan lawyer and Quaker humanitarian, a founder (1910) and president (1915-41) of the National Urban League (membership: 50,000), which supports Negro rights in housing and employment, a founder of the American Civil Liberties Union and the American Friends Service Committee; in Mount Kisco...