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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Dreamer. Reno Stitely earned $2.300 a year as chief voucher clerk in the National Park Service of the Interior Department. One day in 1934 he had an inspiration. He created in his own imagination a whole CCC camp in Virginia's Shenandoah National Park. The Government had never dreamed of Mr. Stitely's camp but he gave it an imaginary supervisor and eight imaginary foremen. Then he made out payroll vouchers and sent them to the War Department, which pays all National Park Service employes who do conservation work. Unfortunately, he could not make up imaginary CCC boys...
After 18 months of shellfire, nervous shock, cold, and no peanuts at all, Pancho the elephant, largest and most inedible survivor of Madrid's El Retire Park Zoo, last week closed his little eyes and died of malnutrition. Next day the Leftist Govern-ment in Barcelona made a move it had threatened for over a year. To solve the food problem in Madrid, it ordered that all civilians not engaged in necessary war work must leave that city within 30 days or be evacuated, "by force if necessary." The necessity of using force seemed remote, for the Government...
Prairie Houses. While Louis Sullivan was working on public buildings, what few commissions Adler & Sullivan were given for private houses fell to Frank Lloyd Wright to design. At 20 he married and borrowed $5,000 from Sullivan to build his own home in Oak Park. For the sheer pleasure of it as well as to pay the debts he easily contracted for his growing family, Wright took what jobs he could get designing private houses outside the office. This angered Sullivan and in 1894, after nearly six years with the firm, Wright threw down his pencil and walked...
Against this argument the fact stands that, out of more than 150 clients, only three or four have been seriously dissatisfied over money or anything else. Both in the early Oak Park period and later, Wright has in general attracted clients who had enough money to be adventurous but not enough to be stuffy. His personal improvidence is legendary. But the best piece of evidence that Wright will, when really necessary, pay careful heed to the means of his client is the one-story, six-room, $5,500 house which he finished last month for Herbert Jacobs, a newspaperman...
...last week the winter troupers had reached Los Angeles for the high spot of the season-the $5,000 Los Angeles Open, sponsored by the local Times. Warming up for the opening round, on the sunny municipal links at Griffith Park, the top-notch golfers of the U. S., as well as the obscure hopefuls, experienced more than their usual pre-tournament "yips" (Jitters). For this was the No. i tournament of the West Coast and, although it was almost midway in the winter circuit, it was the beginning of a new year and a new race for money-winning...