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Half century ago Holabird & Roche and Burnham & Root were Chicago's two top-flight architectural firms. Today's Holabird & Root is the inheritor of the talents of the older generation. Best known architectural-partnership (formed in 1928) west of the Allegheny Mountains, its main Chicago rival is Graham, Anderson, Probst & White whose new Field Building shows a vertical treatment typical of Holabird & Root...
...tempest broke out in Times Square in 1931 when the prize went to Susan Glaspell's Alison's House, an unsuccessful biography of Emily Dickinson presented in a downtown theatre. Disregarded were such outstanding productions as Tomorrow & Tomorrow by Philip Barry (a top-flight playwright who has never received the prize), the sensationally hilarious Once in a Lifetime by George S. Kaufman & Moss Hart and, presumably on the grounds that they were not "American," Maxwell Anderson's Elizabeth the Queen and Grand Hotel...
...top-flight gold digger, nearly on her uppers, makes a desperate set at the man of her schemes, succeeds in breaking his engagement, almost lands him. But backgammon ruins her, saves...
...Author. A citizen more of Europe than of France, Remain Rolland was one of the few top-flight intellectuals who not only tried to prevent the late Great War but refused to succumb to it. The result: exile in Switzerland, where he still lives (aetat 65). When he digs into a subject he digs deep. His ten-volume Jean-Christophe won him the Nobel Prize (1915). The Soul Enchanted, a study in feminism, ran to three volumes. Since then he has been working the Beethoven vein, has published one (U. S.-translated) book on Beethoven the Creator (TIME, Sept...