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Today: mostly sunny and cooler, highs in the mid 30s. Northwest wind 10 to 20 mph. Tonight: clear, low near...
...production yet, but the prototypes have won a prize from the Industrial Designers Society of America. While they celebrate simplicity (each contains a single screw, and the controls are self- explanatory), they avoid both stripped-down K Mart grimness and unsmiling Germanic pretension. Just as moderne objects in the '30s suggested speed, the curves of these heaters evoke waves of warmth: form (metaphorically) follows function...
...production yet, but the prototypes have won a prize from the Industrial Designers Society of America. While they celebrate simplicity (each contains a single screw, and the controls are self- explanatory), they avoid both stripped-down K Mart grimness and unsmiling Germanic pretension. Just as moderne objects in the '30s suggested speed, the curves of these heaters evoke waves of warmth: form (metaphorically) follows function...
...known -- become a national hobby. Henry Ford filled warehouses with what he called "American stuff": Duncan Phyfe tables, endless volumes of McGuffey Readers and Thomas Edison memorabilia. John D. Rockefeller Jr. set about restoring colonial Williamsburg, Va., in the painstaking detail that only a billionaire could afford. In the '30s the New Deal was sponsoring research into folk art and folk songs. For the first time the government, not the private sector, became the main custodian of history...
Mercer, a cool-hand songwriter as well as a canny businessman, had first seen Cole playing a date at a Los Angeles steak joint in the late '30s and almost a half-decade later, signed him up for his fledgling Capitol Records. Cole was, even then, a sure jazz spirit and a first-rate singer. Born Nathaniel Adams Coles in Montgomery, Ala., in 1919, he had moved with his clergyman father and family to Chicago in 1923 and started to play professionally while he was still a teenager. Guitarist Oscar Moore and bass player Wesley Prince joined...