Word: sullivans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Chicago that Boston-born Louis Sullivan first saw as a fledgling draftsman of 17 was a vast expanse of gutted ruins, the aftermath of the Great Fire of 1871. Sidewalks were temporary wooden structures; pavements oozed mud. But for Sullivan it was love at first sight. He could foresee that up from the ruins would burgeon a new city...
...during two drama-packed decades of engineering breakthroughs (hydraulic elevators, fireproof hollow tile, new foundation planning, and the first steel skeleton construction-the Home Insurance Building) that set the stage for the major U.S. contribution to architecture: the skyscraper. And in this new Chicago it was to be Louis Sullivan who first gave the soaring office building its logical and definitive form. To mark the tooth anniversary of Sullivan's birth, Chicago architects last week were sponsoring a dazzling roundup of his work in Chicago's Art Institute. Based largely on huge blowups from a photo essay...
...addition, the meeting referred a plan of Mayor Edward J. Sullivan to increase salaries of all school employees by ten percent and a plan of the local Teachers' Club to revise the salary schedule...
...Princetion's Rod Zwirner, who has defeated every major runner in the field. Close behind him will be Columbia's Jose Iglesias. Mike Midler of Cornell is favored for third place, while fourth should be a toss-up among the varsity's Pete Reider, Doug Brew of Dartmouth, Ed Sullivan of Brown, and Navy's Walt Meukow...
Gilbert and Sullivan groups greatly increased their output and Lowell House presented The Golden Apple in true Broadway-spectacle fashion...