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...ever to be set on floating piles. They built offices, warehouses, hotels and theatres all over the Midwest and in 1890 ran up one of the few architectural monuments in the U. S. It sits on the corner of Seventh and Chestnut Streets, St. Louis, and is called the Wainwright Building...
...Wainwright Building, of Missouri granite, sandstone, brick and terra cotta, was the world's first skyscraper to be treated artistically for what it really was: a cellular arrangement of business offices. Working in an age of romantic eclecticism when Chicago boasted "an Italo-Byzantine-French-Venetian structure with Norman windows," when no other architect knew what to do with a tall façade except to break down its height with a series of small horizontal units, Louis Sullivan's Wainwright Building, in his own words, was and is "every inch a proud and soaring thing, rising...
Harper Woodward '31, Secretary to President Conant, has resigned his position effective September 1, to practice law in New York City. Woodward, who succeeded Vernon Munroe, Jr., a year ago, will join the firm of Barry, Wainwright, Thacher, and Symmers. The appointment of his successor will be announced next week after the meeting of the Corporation...
...killed 50% of the natives at Point Barrow, on Alaska's Arctic Ocean edge 30 years ago. Last week influenza demonstrated that the years of white men's invasion have not inured Eskimos to white men's epidemics. Three hundred Eskimos at Point Barrow, 200 at Wainwright, were abed with influenza last week. Thirteen of the Point Barrow victims were dead. While Eskimo boys chopped graves in the frozen Point Barrow cemetery, the 13 lay in the rear end of the Presbyterian church. They had coffins. But Dr. Henry W. Greist, 67, an Indianian who sequestered himself...
...hearts of children so leaky that all the rest of their lives they must avoid exertion. The other disease is rheumatoid arthritis (swelling and pain in the joints, particularly in the knees, elbows, wrists). That streptococci most probably cause rheumatic fever has long been suspected. Dr. Charles William Wainwright of Baltimore offered evidence that the streptococcus also is responsible for rheumatism in the joints. In any case children who eat spinach diligently will probably escape the fever and heart disease, grown-ups who do likewise will probably escape the rheumatism. This seems so whether 1) Vitamin C enables the body...