Word: richardson
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...McCloy's officials last week explained HICOG's functions to TIME Correspondent David Richardson: "A high commissioner," he said, "is an ambassador with a great big horn. Whenever possible, he will talk quietly through the horn. Occasionally he may have to holler through it. But because he is, after all, a gent in a morning coat, he will count past 100 before he will even think of conking anyone with...
...being transformed into a Pullman coach, Sever Hall is going Lamont. The grimy Greek statuary and the faded photos of French cathedrals are on their way out and the archaic benches will be removed in favor of a sleek, specially designed desk chair. By spring, Henry Hobson Richardson's building will sport an interior in soft pastel shades, humming with glareless fluorescent lights...
Sever, built in 1880, was Richardson's first opus after he finished Trinity Church in Boston. It was the first time he really went modern, and marks the inauguration of the "Richardson style," which has since been damned because of the ugly efforts of Richardson's many imitators. Sever, however, is considered a masterpiece. A Wellesley architecture course makes a yearly pilgrimage to the Yard...
...opening of parliament. Adenauer was still negotiating, shrewdly as ever, to form a cabinet that would guarantee him the most workable coalition. (The Socialists are now definitely out; in are the free-enterprising Protestant Free Democrats and the extreme nationalist Deutsche Partei.) From Bonn last week, TIME Correspondent David Richardson cabled: "Neither young nor dynamic, Adenauer is the kind of pre-Nazi politician who did not succumb to National Socialism and who now must lead his country's new life until a new generation, not tainted by Hitler, can rise to power. Adenauer has limitations...
...asteroid will prove a useful tool in their unearthly studies. Since it comes close to Mercury, it will help them measure (by changes in its orbit) the mass of the planet, which is not known very exactly. "But [an asteroid] is rather like a concerto," explained Dr. Richardson. "It has no real practical value...