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...like Ohio State (TIME, Jan. 22). Many of its 15,000-odd students are poor and doggedly hardworking. To build them a worthy social centre was an ambition of Minnesota's late great President Lotus Delta Coffman. Last fortnight Minnesota's students, faculty and alumni (aided by PWA) made his wish a fact, dedicated the $1,850,000 Coffman Memorial Union on the Mississippi's bluffs. Last week, Minnesota's boys and girls tramped over its thick red carpets, sprawled in its purple and cream chairs, marveled at its furnishings. They noted: ^ A two-story lounge...
...bristled with batons-in Philadelphia (where the season opened fortnight ago), Boston, Cleveland, many another place. Buffalo, which has a modest symphony, struck up in a new plushy, streamlined, $1,300,000 Kleinhans Music Hall built by the late Edward L. Kleinhans, clothing storeman, and PWA. (Buffalo also dedicated a $2,700,000 Memorial Auditorium, finest in the land.) In Manhattan's mellow Carnegie Hall, the Philharmonic-Symphony also launched its 99th season of concerts. This last event produced the loudest crash. For Manhattan's Herald Tribune produced a notable new critic: witty, chubby-cheeked, ex-expatriate Virgil...
...shiny new super-highway the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania paid not one cent. The Turnpike Commission, appointed by Democratic Governor George Earle, got $29,250,000 from PWA, and a $40,800,000 loan from RFC. Tough, driving, sixtyish Walter Adelbert Jones, commission chairman, set a construction deadline at July 1, 1940 (to get the PWA grant), sent "cats" and bulldozers racing over Appalachian slopes like Nazi tanks in the Ardennes, ordered concrete flushed over roadbeds that had been given scarcely the winter to settle. The road was completed in 21 months. There was no fanfare this week as the Pennsylvania...
Governed by rigid restrictions laid down for buildings on Benjamin Franklin Parkway, the court matches the adjacent Free Library, both being copies of the Marine Ministry in Paris. Architect W. R. Morton Keast, who wangled $1,525,500 of PWA money for the building, was given free hand with the interior. But because of PWA and Philadelphia municipal requirements, Architect Keast had to call for competitive bids for murals. However, he persuaded PWA to let the bidders tell the jury about their qualifications. Philadelphia's municipal Art Jury (once headed by Collector Joe Widener) passed upon 22 bidding artists...
...Washington. Because of the unstable mud bottom, State highway engineers figured that an orthodox bridge, without approaches, would cost $18,000,000. Lacey V. Murrow, Director of Highways, and Charles E. Andrew, consulting engineer, decided that a pontoon bridge, approaches and all, could be built for $8,854,400. PWA offered to chip in $3,794,400. Seattle's City Council squeezed through a 5-to-4 endorsement...