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...seven: Berkeley, Los Angeles (U.C.L.A.), Santa Barbara, Davis, San Francisco, Riverside, La Jolla. No kin to the University of California and not state-supported: Stanford University (Stanford), the University of Southern California (Los Angeles), the California Institute of Technology (Pasadena...
...many less business-oriented architects, consistently turn into buildings. His clients, which include six of the top ten U.S. industrial corporations, often come back for more. He has completed five Hilton hotels, six projects for Kaiser. When Hallmark Card President Joyce Hall admired some card-display racks in a Pasadena store completely designed by Becket, he went to see Becket. Becket not only got Hallmark's business but a contract to build a home for Hall. He has since done eight Hallmark buildings...
...Wurdeman, in 1932 moved to Los Angeles, where the partners made their mark by building houses to order for movie stars. During World War II they switched to mass production, built housing for 50,000 California workers. Their first big break into commercial construction came when they designed a Pasadena store for Bullock's, Inc., with such new features as movable partitions and direct package delivery to customers' autos. Bullock's hired them to design two more stores, and their reputation spread quickly. Since Wurdeman died in 1949, Becket has owned the firm...
Across the U.S., home-repair clubs retrieved a Pasadena woman's emerald ring that had been inadvertently flushed down the drain, exterminated night-chirping crickets that kept a Long Island insurance agent awake, sent a geologist to a Pacific homesite to estimate the danger of rockslides for a nervous homebuyer...
...Escapade, a sleek, 72½-ft. yawl skippered by Baldwin M. Baldwin of Pasadena, Calif., glided past Skagen Lighthouse to lead 17 weary finishers in the Bermuda-Sweden yacht race. Escapade's time for the 3,500-mile voyage: 19 days...