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Died. Adrian Iselin, 3rd, 20, socialite motorcycle enthusiast; when a motorcycle he was riding at night on a race track struck a parked track scraper; in Freeport...
...interested in the new skyscrapers there. "I think the new buildings are very beautiful," he said, "but New York is not as interesting as it used to be. Before they started to build so many tall structures one could find a mediaeval type of architecture beside a towering sky scraper, but now they are all getting to be of the same kind, and the general appearance is rather monotonous. This seems to be the main difference between cities of the old and new world. American cities all look about the same, and are really rather dull. 'In Germany...
...understanding of the ordinary film audience?" This book seeks to prove that, with expert manipulation, they can. Mr. Wells's audience would first be shown a primeval cave, views of the globe. North America, the Manhattan skyline, a skyscraper, then a view of one of the sky-scraper's windows, into it, across the room, to a map, where, with the aid of a pointer outlining Kingdom of Clavery and Republic of Agravia, two fictitious Balkan states, the story begins. It seems there is a certain precious metal called calcomite. The English control all the calcomite mines except...
Leroy S. Buffington, in 1830, was a young Minneapolis architect with an idea. He had conceived a building which he called a "cloud scraper." Simple was the construction principle ? a steel skeleton with a shelf at each floor to hold the sur face masonry. He took out patents on it. Since then, almost every skyscraper in the world has been built on Mr. Buffington's principle. Last week, Architect Buffington, 89, received a check for $2,250 as royalties on the construction on the 25-story Rand Building, in Minneapolis. It was the first time, despite eleven infringement suits...
...most interested in art, who know every painter by his first name, do not stop to think of the artist responsible for some monumental pile. His book will help remedy this condition, and those who have eyes but now see not will find new pleasure even in a sky-scraper...