Word: wrighting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Negro authors generally, says Ebony, "are hitting pay dirt," and the royalties of onetime Communist Richard (Native Son, Black Boy) Wright (pictured with his white wife) "make a pretty fat bankroll." Ebony prints Gjon Mill's excellent shots of mixed jam sessions to show how jazz promotes good feeling between whites & blacks, reminds its readers of unpleasantness only with a picture story on Brazil headlined: "Starving Negroes Can't Eat Racial Equality." Despite the fact that her show folded before it reached Broadway, Ebony's 19-year-old pin-up girl Sheila Guys (caption: "A Star Fizzles...
...spry old man. as regal-looking as a Shakespearean actor, arrived in Manhattan last week to show off his latest creation. Before 68 New York reporters Architect Frank Lloyd Wright unwrapped his model for "The Modern Gallery of Non-Objective Painting," which will be built (with Guggenheim money) next spring on Manhattan's upper Fifth Avenue (TIME, July 23 ). To some of the newsmen, impressed by Architect Wright but irreverent by nature, the model looked something like a big, white ice cream freezer...
...Wright had built daringly and well against earthquakes: he designed the Imperial to float like a flexible collection of barges on Tokyo's soft mud. The floors were cantilevered on supports which carried them the way waiters carry trays on one hand. To keep the center of gravity low, the outer walls (double shells of brick poured solid with concrete) tapered toward the top. All piping and wiring was laid free of the construction in concretecovered trenches. An immense pool guarded the building from the fires which usually follow Japanese quakes...
...Said Wright proudly in 1932: "There may be more awful threat to human happiness than earthquake-I do not know what it can be." He had not counted on aerial bombardment...
Last week the hotel's management begged Wright (via Domei) to come back and rebuild the gutted wing. Said Wright: let the Japs do it themselves...