Word: kensington
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...director of Faber & Faber, publishers; 2) advisory editor of The Christian Newsletter; 3) commentator in the New English Weekly (Eliot's latest contribution is an essay, Notes Towards a Definition of Culture); 4) church warden of Anglo-Catholic St. Stephen's, in London's respectable Kensington; 5) British Council lecturer; 6) fire watcher in quiet Bloomsbury...
...goodly company had assembled at the Soviet Embassy in Kensington Palace Gardens. Winston Churchill's Clemmie was there, ageless and bright-eyed, looking and listening for her husband. Sir Archibald Sinclair, Britain's Air Secretary, beamed at little Ivan Maisky, the Soviet Union's bearded Ambassador to the Court of St. James's, the most popular foreigner in England. Air Chief Marshal Sir Charles Portal, grim as always, and Air Marshal Sir William Sholto Douglas had come to acknowledge a Soviet tribute to the R.A.F...
...West Kensington flat, Mrs. Theodora Greenhill, 65, widow, was found brained with a milk bottle...
After a year of bench-warming, some of the U.S.'s star architects were finally at work last week on defense housing. In Pittsburgh's suburb of New Kensington, not far from Aluminum Co. of America's sprawling plant, builders got started on a set of emergency houses designed by famed Architect Walter Gropius of Harvard and his co-Bauhäusler Marcel Breuer. They differed as much from the first crop of Government houses for defense workers as a Frank Lloyd Wright design does from a suburban contractor...
Gropius' New Kensington project is only the most notable of a flock of new defense houses being built by the country's best architects. Already complete and occupied are the sombrero-eaved cottages which Los Angeles' Richard J. Neutra designed for Avion Village, near Dallas. Cranbrook's Eliel Saarinen is working on designs for 200 defense units in Detroit; George Howe has an assignment at Middletown, Pa. On the next largest project of all is San Francisco's able William W. Wurster, who drew up the site plan for 1,692 units for Mare Island...