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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Strange and condoned has been the existence of Architect Frank Lloyd Wright. Erotic and impulsive, he deserted his wife and six children to live with a Mrs. Mamah Bostwick Cheney and her two children, family of a Chicago businessman. For himself and them he built a splendidly original home on a rocky hill at Spring Green, southern Wisconsin. A thin-lipped Barbados Negro, their butler, one day chopped Mistress Cheney, her children and four neighbors to death with an axe and burned down the house. When Architect Wright rebuilt it, Miriam Noel, English sculptress who had fallen in love with...
Last August Vincent Bendix, industrialist son of a Methodist minister, who starts and stops most of the world's automobiles (Bendix Drive, Mechanical Four-Wheel Brakes), gave to Swedish Explorer Sven Anders Hedin $135,000 with which to proceed to China, draw plans of two ancient Lama temples and buy their trappings. Last week Mr. Bendix was thanked by King Gustaf of Sweden for one of these temples which he had given to Stockholm. It will cost some $65,000, will be erected by Explorer Hedin, who will assemble the other one, also at Bendix expense, in Chicago. Purpose...
Fritz von Opel, youthful and imaginative automobile maker of Frankfort, Germany, after two unsuccessful attempts rose 250 feet in the air, flew six miles to an airplane given momentum not by a motor but by rockets. It was the first rocket-plane flight. Just before he started he had explained: "Before one attempts to fly to the moon, he must jump over the first milestone...
...Lipshutz categorized as follows: "The first group was the social group. Nice-young-men-from-good-families, who made up the more decorative part of the student body. . . . Group number two, quite as definite, was the wicked group- an off-colour mixture of boys from all races and all families, who sat in the rear of the rooms and cried their vices to each other . . . were still young enough to regard a prostitute as an adventure. . . . The third group was the group of serious students who were not social about it . . . went in for higher mathematics, and for chess...
What happened last week in Detroit was, as all the world knows, just another vortex in the maelstrom that is gradually concentrating U. S. bank control. Whirling daily at a faster rate, there are two main currents in the maelstrom. One is the expansion of single units through mergers and new branches. Of this last week's Detroit merger was an example, as was the Corn Exchange Bank and Trust Co.-National City Bank consolidation (TIME, Sept. 30). The other current is the grouping of separate units through one controlling corporation. Greatest examples of this are the Transamerica Corp...