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...peristyle, flanked by two buildings, one dedicated to the Army, one to the Navy. 2) Christopher Grant La Farge-An ornamental arrangement of pylons and railings framing a reception plaza, a fountain playing in a great reflecting pool, the whole scaled low, designed simply, keeping the Broadway vista open. 3) Eric Gugler-A granite shaft 800 ft. high flanked by two large armillary spheres, one symbolic of the celestial globe, one of the planets; semicircular steps 400 ft. wide from the water to an esplanade...
MEYER, Swiss master-writer of the late nineteenth century, combined delicacy of art with a decisive, compact handling of his historical subjects that is all too often lacking in German authors, especially when they find the whole vista of a past civilization spread before them. Meyer is rarely discursive; he possesses startling dramatic sense, a passionate feelings for the great individual; these a translation can reproduce, but the perfection of style that marks the original it was not in the power of Professor Hauch to give again in his translation. It is to his credit that he has captured...
Aware of the Parlin vista, aware also that more wealth reposes in Manhattan than anywhere else in the U. S., the aviation industry last week arrayed itself as never before in the Aeronautical Chamber of Commerce's first New York show...
...trips back to the capital only when necessary. He hopes to visit the Fatherland later in the summer. H. H. Prince Albert de Ligne, Belgium's Ambassador, has removed himself and his diplomatic entourage to Gibson Island, Md., in Chesapeake Bay. Katsuji Debushi, the Japanese, has gone to Buena Vista, Va., for cooling elevation. The Mexican Ambassador, Senor Don Manuel C. Tellez, went to his own country, where it is really...
...Houses are not arranged so as to disrupt the area entirely as an entity the undergraduate plea will be answered. If the idea behind the whole House plan prevents a symmetrical arrangement and a harmonious architecture, there is no definite reason why one unit should stare placidly across a vista at its exact reproduction. As long as the site favor a development which lacks the crowded discord of mushroom growth, anything short of futuristic pattern for the buildings and their relation to each other might be employed...