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...Finest study to date of the Chicago school is included in the monumental book, Space, Time & Architecture by Swiss-born Architectural Critic Sigfried Giedion, which has just reached its third printing (Harvard University Press; $5). Giedion finds the roots of the Jenney and Sullivan skyscraper, not in the showpieces of past European and U.S. architecture, but in such useful and noble feats of engineering as glass-surfaced markets and department stores, or the cast-iron-pillared warehouses of the St. Louis water front...
...Germany just before the outbreak of World War I, a promising young Swiss-born artist named Paul Klee threw over all the drawing lessons he had learned at Munich's famed Akademie and took to making little childlike scrawls. Artist Klee was trying to capture on canvas the fleeting impressions of his own subconscious mind. To him and a few devoted admirers the childish, loony world of the subconscious was more interesting than the harsh, war-bound world outside...
...Swiss-born Camille Dreyfus, president of $66,000,000 Celanese Corp., has never felt the damp hand of deficit-even in 1932 Celanese cleared $891,866, in 1933 $5,453,903, in 1939 $6,216,781. Last week, getting ready to float a $25,000,000 debenture issue ($15,000,000 new money), he titillated the stockmarket by reporting the best six-month earnings in Celanese history...
Died. Paul Klee, 61, Swiss-born painter; in Berne, Switzerland. His scrawly-scratchy works banned as "Bolshevist art," Artist Klee was forced in 1933 to resign as professor at the Academy of Art in Dusseldorf, fled Germany...
against the Golden Gate's 4,200, George Washington's 3,500, San Francisco-Oakland Bay's 2,310), it is the work of famed Swiss-born, 61-year-old Engineer Othmar H. Ammann (George Washington, Hell Gate, many another great bridge) and Architect Aymar Embury...