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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When the new graduate school housing center is completed in 1950, it will represent a revolution in architectural design, at least as far as conservative Harvard goes. For the dormitories are a product of the seven members of Architects Collaborative, all of whom are disciples of the functionalist school of design...
Universal & Permanent. Eli Whitney, an 18th Century Massachusetts Yankee, went broke after his cotton gin invention was widely pirated, and turned to making muskets. He got the idea of interchangeable parts. Before Whitney, each part of each factory product was different from its fellow on another product, even from the same shop. But every Whitney trigger fitted every Whitney gun. This principle of interchangeable parts became the basis of modern industry...
Second on the list of attractions is "Bad Sister," an English offering that ranks far below the usual foreign product. Margaret Lockwood and Joan Greenwood, two very nice-looking dames, take the audience to the Riveria and Finland on a pair of tragic love affairs. The high point comes in Finland where Miss Lockwood is serenaded by a high-frequencied soprano with a face like a bilious brook trout...
Birth of a Giant. Palmer switched the company from collars to shirts. Sales fell at first, to a depression low of less than $10 million in 1932, but under Palmer's vigorous pushing of the new product they soon recovered. The company was also lucky in its Vice President Sanford Cluett, the original families' only remaining executive. Cluett was an experiment-minded man. His tinkering had turned up Sanforizing.* Palmer plugged it hard...
...dull routine of the Custom House to provide for his family, and emerging in his early middle age ... to take part in a contemporary world he had scarcely known existed." Says Robert Cantwell: "Such a portrait, with its angular shadows, its El Greco distortions . . . is in itself an interesting product of the American imagination ... but I found it less and less like Hawthorne the more I learned...