Word: wrights
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...WRIGHT Stonington, Conn...
...think it's filthy," declared famed Architect Frank Lloyd Wright,* 83, in the big city for a brief inspection tour. "It's 3 greatly overgrown village. It has phases unworthy of a great city-trucks mixed with taxicabs and private conveyances, the whole thing a melee, and then the garbage set out on the streets. Very village-like." Wright added that Alexander Weollcott had once defined New Yorkers as "Midwesterners with ulcers...
...future, Wright thought, New York will become even more of a village. "You'll see more greenery in 25 years. Grass will grow where least expected, and flowers will bloom in the concrete. Big cities are a hangover from feudal times. Once they were necessary, but they reached and passed their peak, and now you will see them disappearing...
...other doings of Architect Wright, see BUSINESS...
...varsity eight finished fourth, two and a half lengths off the record-setting pace of the undefeated Princeton shell, which captured the Joseph Wright Trophy, highest award for the nation's Highweight crows...