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...Harrison had his own office and two new partners: Andre Fouil-houx and Max Abramovitz. The firm helped add two more buildings to Rockefeller Center, put up the 12-story Rockefeller Apartments in Manhattan and the $1,200,000 Hotel Avila in Caracas, Venezuela's first luxury hotel and still its best. Harrison's firm was given the job of finding a suitably futuristic theme for New York's World's Fair. He and his designers spent months on the problem. On the 1,036th drawing, they got what they wanted-the Trylon & Perisphere. When...
Huge projects like these require the collaboration of many minds. Harrison's partner, Max Abramovitz, and an office force of some 250 were not enough to get U.N.-in-Manhattan off the ground. To start with, Harrison spent four months picking the brains of an advisory panel of ten brilliant architects from ten nations. The following two pages show home-grown effects achieved by six of these consultants. They all found Harrison wide-open to ideas. Says Belgium's Gaston Brunfaut cheerfully: "He is not a businessman like the rest of American architects. He is an idealist...
...added another cubit to its business stature last week. It announced details of its plans to build the Southwest's biggest office building for its new quarters (see cut). The 600-ft., slabsided structure will look like Manhattan's United Nations buildings-and with reason. Harrison and Abramovitz, chief U.N. architectural firm, supervised the design. Completely air-conditioned, the new bank will have a basement drive-in banking service for motorists, a basement garage big enough to handle 1,200 cars a day. It will be finished in 1952. Cost: $15 million...
...strike started when 16 female button sewers at a Hart Schaffner & Marx factory, earning $3 to $8 a week, walked out over a 4? reduction in piecework pay. (One of the 16 strikers was round-faced, Russian-born Bessie Abramovitz, whom Hillman later married.) For three weeks, more & more workers left their sweatshops until the 16 strikers had become 41,000. Each night there were meetings, usually at Hull House, addressed by Welfare Worker Jane Addams, Lawyer Clarence Darrow, and the strike leaders...
...Colans' rabbi, Talmudist A. E. Abramovitz, gave no better help: "The Mosaic law does not deal with such problems. At the time the Bible was written surgery was not advanced to the extent that it is today, and such problems did not occur. ... It is my opinion that we should let nature take its course. Where men cannot correct, let God make His own decision...