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Three years ago, Edgar Kaufmann, on culture bent, decided to remodel his store. He scoured the U. S. for a good draughtsman, found Boardman Robinson, painter-cartoonist, asked him for a set of murals expressing the history of commerce. Some years before, Artist Robinson had concluded that the only excuse for painting was to subserve architecture and had applied himself to that problem. Delightedly he accepted the commission, but reserved the right to be his own master at all times, to make his own designs, be left alone. Mr. Kaufmann agreed...
...Carrère & Hastings won the prize in the countrywide competition for the New York Public Library. In 1911 when the building was opened to the public John Carrère was killed in a street accident. In his will, Architect Hastings has left $250,000 to remodel the library's facade, with which he was never quite satisfied...
Manhattan-Philadelphia financier, and his associates of Dieppe Corp. (including Financier William Kissam Vanderbilt Jr., Banker Jules Semon Bache, Cinemagnates Adolph Zukor, Joseph M. Schenck, Producer Florenz Ziegfeld), were freed last week from long litigation, proceeded with their plans to remodel Manhattan's Central Park Casino as "a dining place for New York society . . . around which the cultured life of the city can rotate." Announced features: a black glass ballroom, an orange terrace, a tulip pavilion...
Last week President Coolidge designated it as his choice for a hot-weather week-end retreat for future Presidents of the U. S. He asked Congress for $48,000 to remodel it. It would not be a Summer White House, to which the President would move for a long stay. It would simply be a week-end retreat, an escape from the sticky heat of the low Potomac Valley...
...Lord Melchett, upon his return last week from hobnobbing in U. S. tycoon-dom (TIME, Oct. 29). "American prosperity is based upon two factors. One is the large amount of money earned during the War at the expense of Europe, the effect of which was to enable America to remodel her old plants and build new factories. The other is the great productivity of the American workman, based partly on the greater use of mechanical power and partly on the fact that the American employers are not afraid to pay high wages...