Word: sullivans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Hobart Lerner '40, and Sparks Sorlien '38 are entered in the 300. With six or seven in a heat, these boys will have diffculty getting the lead at the start, let alone keeping it with such stars as Roderkirchen, O'Sullivan, and Carlsen running. Sorlien is also entered in the dash event. He and Bobbie Gammons '39 will have to beat Marty Glickman, Ben Johnson, and Eulace Peacock to win, and observers are not overly optimistic...
Married. Mark Sullivan Jr., 26, son of the conservative columnist-reporter, to Martha Davidge. 21, granddaughter of the late John Wingate Weeks, onetime U. S. Secretary of War and Senator from Massachusetts; in Washington...
...Lieber Meister" is what Frank Lloyd Wright has always called Sullivan since his death in 1924. The reverence is due. Louis Sullivan saw with violent clarity that in industrial Chicago the old styles of European architecture would not serve. Chicagoans to whom the noble pile of the Auditorium Building is part of the landscape and St. Louisans familiar with the ten-story Wainwright Building do not often pause for the solemn reflection that in 1889 and 1891 these were great architectural achievements-office buildings framed in structural steel. Louis Sullivan fathered the skyscraper. In 1899 in the Carson Pirie Scott...
Prairie Houses. While Louis Sullivan was working on public buildings, what few commissions Adler & Sullivan were given for private houses fell to Frank Lloyd Wright to design. At 20 he married and borrowed $5,000 from Sullivan to build his own home in Oak Park. For the sheer pleasure of it as well as to pay the debts he easily contracted for his growing family, Wright took what jobs he could get designing private houses outside the office. This angered Sullivan and in 1894, after nearly six years with the firm, Wright threw down his pencil and walked...
Meanwhile the new type of public architecture which Sullivan had made powerful was sidetracked by the Chicago World's Fair of 1893. Eastern conservatives turned the fair into a magnificent tour de force of neoclassic buildings, and for a quarter-century eclecticism held the stage in U. S. public architecture. Wright kept off the stage. In 1905 he produced, in protest, a well-lighted administration building for the Larkin Co. in Buffalo, severely without ornament, the first office building in the U. S. to use 1) metal-bound, plate-glass doors and windows, 2) all-metal furniture...