Word: perret
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...today is in the cathedral town of Amiens, a 25-story tower made of reinforced concrete, named for Architect Auguste Ferret. Far from pointing to the building with pride, the people of Amiens have scornfully dubbed it La Chandelle (The Candle). To the French government, which owns it, the Perret Tower has become a national scandal. Abuilding since 1949, it is still unfinished inside, already 30 months behind schedule and 132 million francs over its original 93-million-franc estimate. Last week the French government offered the tower to private investors. Price: one-fifth its cost to date. Takers: none...
...tower's troubles date back almost to the day the designs were finished by the late, famed Architect Perret. In digging the foundations, workmen uncovered a subterranean river, which had to be diverted from its course. As work progressed it turned out that the city water pressure was too low to force water above the 20th story. Then someone figured out that the building's two seven-passenger elevators would take nearly two hours to get the building's 350 prospective tenants to work...
...Honor of Gaston Le Torch, by Jacques Perret, was one of the most charming extravaganzas of the year, a pleasant escapist whimsy about a Gallic Walter Mitty...
...Perret also works closely with the Army and Fleet Postal Officers on military subscription problems. When he visited Naples recently, the Fleet Postal Officer commented on the speed with which TIME keeps up with the movement of Navy ships from one FPO to another. Ferret explained that TIME'S worldwide publication of five editions makes it logistically easy to keep up with a wandering Navy vessel. For example, if a sailor's ship is in the Mediterranean or the North Sea, he would get the Atlantic edition. If he moved into the Pacific, he would get either...
...short, the object of our circulation department is to make TIME just as available to the men serving over seas as it is to civilians at home. Says Perret: "We've been lucky enough to get delivery service in most places to the point where it's so much like home that we get quick gripes on the rare occasions when the magazine does arrive late." Perret, who makes the Paris office of TIME-LIFE International his home operating base, does most of his traveling now in a small French Simca and has had his share of minor...