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Died. Catherine Tobin Wright, 87, first wife of Patriarchitect Frank Lloyd Wright, mother of his first six children, including California Architect John Lloyd Wright, author of My Father Who Is On Earth, and Mrs. Catherine Baxter, mother of Cinemactress Anne Baxter; in Santa Monica, Calif. "Young husband-to-be just twenty-one, the young wife-to-be not yet eighteen," wrote Frank Lloyd Wright in the split-level prose of his autobiography. "Wedding [1890] on a rainy day. More resembled a funeral. The sentimentality I was learning to dread came into full flower. The heavens weeping out of doors...
Died. Abram Garfield, 85, patriarchitect of Cleveland, son of U.S. President James Abram Garfield; in Cleveland. As a boy, Garfield lived briefly in the White House during his father's short presidency...
With a surprised "Oh, no," and a lusty "Gosh awful," Patriarchitect Frank Lloyd Wright, 89, summering at his home and workshop in Spring Green, Wis., recoiled from photos of a ten-story addition to Tokyo's Wright-designed Imperial Hotel, said the annex' streamlined "International Style" was "neither international nor style." The labyrinthine Imperial, completed in 1922, had withstood the great 1923 Kwanto earthquake, while much of Tokyo fell to rubble. World War II's firebombings did not destroy it. But now, according to Wright, "Westernization" had effected what war and seism could not; there...
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