Word: wrighting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...agreed to pose for a colored movie to illustrate the national anthem in Britain's movie houses. On the appointed day all available color cameras were busy and nobody had bothered to tell the King, who eventually stomped back to the palace. TIME'S London Correspondent Alfred Wright last week cabled some other glimpses of George and his family...
Architect Frank Lloyd Wright, 77, dislikes buildings "all dressed up in military fashion, heels together, eyes front. . . ." He makes his houses lie flat on the ground and stretch out. To his followers, the old master is a modern Michelangelo whose sculptures can be lived...
...Wright's latest, a country house for wealthy stockbroker Gerald Loeb, has yet to be built, but a 6 ft. by 12 ft. model went on view last week in Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art. Designed for a barren hilltop, the Loeb house was to be as low, flat and full of wrinkles as an unmade Japanese...
...Wright laid out a jigsaw puzzle of pierced roofs, gardens, lawns, curving walls and pools. The circular swimming pool, hollowed out around the edge, has columns under water as well as above, enclosing a glassed-in submarine gaxden. Said Wright: "The average swimming pool looks to me like a glorified bathtub...
...money-wise, 52-year-old bachelor, Loeb recently toured the Midwest to see Wright's houses for himself. He admits that the temperamental old architect's notions are sometimes impractical in small ways, but thinks that living in a Wright-designed house will be worth a little inconvenience. Says Loeb happily: "Wright is good and he knows he's good...