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THE EARTH TREMBLES-Jules Romains -Knopf ($3). When last week the fifth volume of Jules Romains' super-novel (Men of Good Will-TIME, June 5, 1933 et seq.) appeared, no one knew how many more were to come. Even Author Romains himself could not or would not say how...
Henry Hobson Richardson died of Bright's disease on April 27, 1886, two years after the first steel frame building had been erected in Chicago. Unlike his admirer, the late Louis Sullivan (TIME, Dec. 9), Richardson had nothing to do with the development of the skyscraper, but because he...
Last week the American Association of University Professors met in St. Louis for the purpose, among others, of revising its list of "ineligible" universities " colleges. The institutions which spot this list are the black sheep of U. S. education, and the A. A. U. P. will not accept new members...
The Wainwright Building, of Missouri granite, sandstone, brick and terra cotta, was the world's first skyscraper to be treated artistically for what it really was: a cellular arrangement of business offices. Working in an age of romantic eclecticism when Chicago boasted "an Italo-Byzantine-French-Venetian structure with...
As long ago as 1919 a project was broached which would include the site of the Times plant at First and Broadway in a civic centre. For sentimental reasons, Harry Chandler opposed the plan, had his corner exempted. Ten years later, however, the County bought for a State building the...