Word: architect
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Died. Henry C. Alexander, 67, architect of the merger that created Morgan Guaranty Trust, the country's sixth largest commercial bank (assets: $11 billion); of a stroke; in Manhattan. Alexander accepted a partnership in the faltering house of Morgan in 1939, and shook up the stodgy banking community by aggressively scouring the country for new accounts and training a new generation of bright young employees to follow his lead. By 1959, Morgan was a growing, $915 million concern, and Alexander had the stage set for his greatest coup: merger with $3.13 billion Guaranty Trust...
...beat Jack Nicklaus on his own golf course is like trying to beat Howard Hughes in a Nevada real estate deal. Yet that was the prospect faced by 143 P.G.A. players in the recent $100,000 Heritage Golf Classic at Hilton Head, S.C. The course was designed by Architect Pete Dye in constant consultation with Nicklaus, who, at 29, has been playing some of the best golf of his career. In three outings on the tour this fall, he won the Sahara Invitational and the Kaiser International tournament and finished second in the Hawaiian Open. He figured to be unbeatable...
...Complete Work of Raphael. 649 pages. Reynal & Company. $45. The year's blockbuster (a 12-lb. book) shows and tells everything about the painter, architect and sonneteer who personifies the High Renaissance search for ideal beauty and harmony. Always overshadowed by the matchless genius and crotchety vitality of Michelangelo, Raphael in this volume exhibits unexpected depths of power and humanity...
Streets for People, A primer for Americans by Bernard Rudofsky. Illustrated. 351 pages. Doubleday. $14.95. A U.S. architect, engineer and enraged gadfly, Rudofsky thinks American city streets are now and always have been ugly, dirty and unfit for human habitation; and he offers fascinating pictures, mainly from Europe, to show how things could be improved. Rudofsky's pet hates: noise, cars, haste, uniformity, ugliness, greed and his fellow countrymen's habit of suggesting that criticism is unpatriotic. What he wants more of and thinks feasible are steps, arcades, automobile-free streets, covered sidewalks, plazas suitable for strolling...
...been tortured and killed on the false charge of murdering his son to prevent the boy's conversion to Catholicism. But Voltaire's pattern in criticizing both church and court was to attack and then back off. Though he is generally credited with being the intellectual architect of the French Revolution, he was not inclined to be a martyr...