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Wasn't Commandeer Sherwood's announcement unique last Tuesday morning? "I am pleased to announced that Mr. Custer has lost his hat and Mr. Unwin has begat himself a seven pound daughter." Congratulations, Ed, damn good cigars. Nice breaking the trend toward sons. Who's gonna drive the street cars if all our newborn enlist in V-12? How about that Frank P, "Jake...
Died. Sir Raymond Unwin, 76, famed British town planner; after a two-month illness; in Lyme, Conn. Advocating "satellite" towns to relieve metropolitan congestion. Planner Unwin dubbed skyscrapers "sheer madness...
Viennese. Since last August the Phaidon Press of Vienna has distributed through the Oxford University Press in New York and through Allen & Unwin, Ltd. in London eight volumes of reproductions, over which many a U. S. publisher is cursing enviously under his breath. Until they appeared, nothing of their quality could be bought in U. S. bookstores for under $5. The Phaidon's top price was $3, for an edition of Botticelli containing 101 plates, 14 in color, and an introduction by the eminent Critic Lionello Venturi. Lowest price was $1.50, for The Disasters of War, Goya...
England has lately had a building boom and last week Sir Raymond Unwin appeared in Manhattan to study U. S. efforts in the same direction. Sir Raymond was knighted in 1932 for giving nearly 40 of his 70 years to planning garden cities and improving Britain's housing. But he found one significant difference between the housing boom in Britain and the hoped-for boom in the U. S. In England 260.000 working men's houses were built in the past year after construction costs had fallen...
...Publisher: Allen & Unwin...