Word: partner
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Street, home of Manhattan's old (108 years) Lehman Brothers. The runners turned over checks for $183,070,380, picked up 15,833,114 shares of Lehman's new One William Street Fund, Inc.-the largest initial financing ever made by an investment company. Then Lehman Senior Partner Robert Lehman turned a check for the total amount over to the Fund president, Dorsey Richardson. Lehman originally planned to sell only 3,000,000 shares. But demand proved so great that Lehman increased the offering to 16 million. The response amazed all Wall Street, which had no idea there...
Around the new Met will be grouped structures for the other performing arts. Manhattan Architect Max Abramovitz (Harrison's partner) is designing the Concert Hall, aimed at seating 2,550 and achieving even greater acoustical perfection than the New York Philharmonic's famed Carnegie Hall. To house a permanent dance repertory group, Architect Philip Johnson (TIME, July 2, 1956) will design a structure that will have "walls papered with people," i.e., a system of balconies giving clear sight lines to the stage. M.I.T. Architecture Dean Pietro Belluschi will build a new Juilliard School. For a park...
...photographs of buildings from all over the U.S., the American Institute of Architects last week picked this year's winners of "first honor" awards for architectural excellence. The year's best: the Connecticut General Life Insurance Co. home office building near Hartford by Skidmore, Owings & Merrill Partner Gordon Bunshaft (TIME COLOR PAGES, Sept. 16); the Stuart Co. pharmaceutical plant at Pasadena by Architect Edward D. Stone (TIME COVER, March 31); two glass-façaded California school buildings by San Francisco's Mario J. Ciampi; a highly patterned tile-and-glass-façaded Palm Springs specialty...
...industry-result of the joint efforts of artist, architect and industrialist-is a vibrant, 8-ft. by 17-ft. mural unveiled this week in the lobby of H. J. Heinz Co.'s new $4,500,000 Research Center in Pittsburgh. From the start,recalls Gordon Bunshaft, design partner of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, the lobby was planned for a specific kind of painting: "Brick going in on two sides, Mies van der Rohe chairs in black, a white wall with a bright, vertical mural...
...once hired a private, nine-car train-three for ponies, three for people, three for baggage-for a trip to Florida, also took more than 100 trunks on a European voyage), owner of race horses (Parnassus, Level Lea); in Palm Beach, Fla. Son of Andrew Carnegie's partner Henry Phipps, and uncle of Pologician Winston Guest, John Phipps was a director of U.S. Steel Corp., W. R. Grace & Co., the Hanover Bank...