Word: wright
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...your article . . . on Frank Lloyd Wright, America's justly famous, world-re-nowned architect was most interesting and fair. The colored portrait I am framing for my room as the foremost masterbuilder of the age along with the foremost composer, Jean Sibelius...
Your Jan. 17 TIME was not cooked through. I tasted obsequious reverence in your article on Frank Lloyd Wright...
Until news of the completion of architectural masterpieces is screamed from the headlines of the U. S. press. I count on TIME for as many unprovoked seven-column eulogies on Frank Lloyd Wright and others of his stature as seem necessary to keep readers informed about progress in this phase of our civilization. Congratulations on following and printing the cumulative news that is rarely run as front-page stuff today but tomorrow makes chapter headings in history...
...wish you might give us a picture and a fuller description of Mr. Herbert Jacobs' "one-story, six-room, $5,500 house" (designed by Mr. Wright) in Madison, Wis. It is what you call Exhibit A in Mr. Wright's scheme of things Usonian...
TIME herewith prints a photograph of the house in Madison, Wis., de-signed for Herbert Jacobs by Architect Wright. L-shaped, it stands with its back to the street corner on an acre lot. The short arm of the L is a big living room, the angle contains kitchen and bathroom, the long arm a hall, two bedrooms and a study. All the rooms face inward, opening tall windows on a garden space. A "carport," roofed and enclosed on two sides, saved money on a garage. About $400 was saved by omitting radiators and heating the house by steam pipes...