Word: shepley
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...summer of 1902 the architects, the venerable Boston firm Shepley, Rutan and Coolidge, readjusted plans for the five buildings along those lines Eliot outlined, trying to plan a move, for instance, of the Comparative Pathology Department into a Morgan building...
...Middle East rulers was well merited; collectively, the businessmen on the TIME tour represented companies that employ more than 1½ million people and had 1974 sales of nearly $100 billion. TIME'S contingent included Board Chairman Andrew Heiskell, Editor in Chief Hedley Donovan, President James R. Shepley and myself. Managing Editor Henry Grunwald and World Section Senior Editor John Elson represented TIME'S editorial staff, along with Gart and incoming Deputy Chief of Correspondents Richard Duncan...
...great man's studio has been replaced by a more cooperative concept of design, both in Richardson's own firm and in the architectural world in general. Most atelier firms--even in Richardson's day--would fall apart after the director died, but Richardson's survived, first as Shepley, Rutan & Coolidge (Winthrop and Kirkland Houses) later as Coolidge, Shepley, Bulfinch & Abbott (who designed the Fogg, Old Quincy, Old Leverett, Burr) and now as Shepley, Bulfinch, Richardson & Abbott (New Quincy, Leverett Towers, Mather). In Richardson's case, a dictatorship bred something of a cooperative. In Wright's and others, it bred...
...with the patterns of Richardson's work. (Toward the beginning of his career, one F.E. Allen spent an entire week examining the intricacies of Sever, and I suppose the pediments and the cut-brick floral ornaments could hypnotize contemporary dilettantes as well.) The work done by Coolidge, Shepley, and others for Richardson was clearly first-rate--but for most of their lives they were constrained only to think of details. I am certain their imagination was squelched to let Richardson's soar...
...case, $70,000. Most astonishing is the list of astute businessmen like Wriston who invested their personal funds. Fred J. Borch, former chairman of General Electric, put up $440,920; William H. Morton, president of American Express, $57,000; Donald Kendall, chairman of PepsiCo, an unknown amount; James R. Shepley, president of Time Inc., $68,500; Thomas S. Gates, who was once Defense Secretary and chairman of the Morgan Guaranty Trust...