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...1930s, Vienna Visionary Josef Hoffmann and others produced jewelry, tableware and even wallpaper at his celebrated Wiener Werkstatte. Bauhaus builders made seating and sinks to furnish their functional structures, and Michigan's Cranbrook Academy of Art inspired mid-century classics like the Eames lounge chair. Frank Lloyd Wright not only fashioned lamps and dinnerware to complement his houses, but even lent his name to mass-produced furniture, carpets and fabrics...
...should soothe the inhabitants of the Pentagon is fitting, for the whole system was basically the creation of an unusual general, George Owen Squier, a West Pointer ('87) who devoted much of his Army career to science. Assigned to evaluate the military potential in the experiments of the Wright Brothers, he became in 1908 one of the first passengers to fly, for all of nine minutes, in a Wright machine. As a young artilleryman, he invented the polarizing photochronograph to measure the speed of a projectile...
...Texas Democrat Wright Patman, then chairman of the House Banking Committee, antagonized financiers when he said, "I think we should have more bank failures. The record of the last several years of almost no failures is to me a danger signal that we have gone too far in the direction of bank safety." Big-city bankers bitterly opposed Patman's novel ideas for allowing more competition...
...Louisa Wright...
...sixth Olympian, just a silver medalist, was hired to warm up the deep chill of the Garden, though scarcely anyone had arrived last week before 171-lb. Virgil Hill dispatched Arthur Wright in the second round. Wright trained as hard as he could, from the moment the match was arranged the day before. Last summer two North Dakota towns, Williston and Grand Forks, threw parades for Hill, 20. Nobody is fighting over him now. "I'm training out of L.A., without a manager yet," he explained in a dim dressing room, though the comparative worth of gold and silver...