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City-bleached people flock to the seashore to get a coat of tan. Soon, perhaps, they may sit in their offices and bake to a brown that would shame a lifeguard. For Architect Hugh Ferriss plans skyscrapers of glass-the kind that permits health-giving ultraviolet rays to come in...
Thomas Hardy has said that the U. S. is notable only for skyscrapers and the poetry of Edna St. Vincent Millay. Poetess Elinor Wylie has likened her friend to the peculiarly American sea off the coast of Maine, where much of The Henchman was written. Both these admirers were trying...
They were to find a "native" theme. Indians? Witchcraft? Skyscrapers? No, the most native to U. S. spirit, decided Miss Millay, is the old Saxon legend. The Saxon is nearer than the redman; the turbulent warrior dearer than the Puritan, to our age. Theirs was a forthright, swaggering, romantic spirit...
Sirs: Please note that the American Insurance Union Citadel of 38 stories attained the height of 360 feet, May, 1926, at Columbus, Ohio, is the highest building in the world outside New York City, and could also be included in list of skyscrapers in TIME, Dec. 13. WENDELL KOCH
Inventor Thomas Alva Edison entered the lists against further skyscrapers. Health officers, mayors' advisers and Henry Ford all cried halt, for obvious practical reasons. And there was a more vociferous though less effective chorus of sociologists, artists and philosophers crying out upon the "Babylonish jumble" of modern city-building...