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...undergraduates at the University of Washington's School of Architecture, Welton Becket and Walter Wurdeman determinedly rushed the same coed. Neither of them married her, but out of their rivalry grew a business partnership that has taken Architects Becket, 45, and Wurdeman, 44, right to the top of Los Angeles' building boom...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CONSTRUCTION: Walt & Welt | 3/1/1948 | See Source »

Last week Wurdeman & Becket were hard at work on one of the West Coast's fattest architectural prizes: supervising the $31,000,000 building program for the University of California's Los Angeles campus. They had also won a contract to build a chain of four hotels for air travelers across the Pacific, starting with a $1,000,000 hotel at Manila. In all, Walt & Welt last week had contracts for $121,050,000 a backlog few U.S. architects can match. Like all their contracts, they had won last week's new business, as they have been...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CONSTRUCTION: Walt & Welt | 3/1/1948 | See Source »

...architects," the partners had learned all about making a dollar go far. On one of their first jobs-redesigning Los Angeles' Clifton's Cafeteria in 1933-they took out their fees in meals. When their plans won first place in a competition for the Pan-Pacific Auditorium, Wurdeman, a good man with a racket, spent his share of the fee to join the Westside Tennis Club-and incidentally to get some business from its Hollywood members. Soon Wurdeman & Becket were building actors' homes by the dozen. From then on, as Wurdeman says: "The graft has gone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CONSTRUCTION: Walt & Welt | 3/1/1948 | See Source »

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