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...late '30s, my husband found a will left by a man who offered several pieces of advice to his sons. One was, "Never hire a man who smokes. He is always striking matches and wasting time." Another was, "Never hire a man who wears a belt. He wastes time pulling up his pants...
...there are Jugendfestspiele at Bayreuth in August, Ansbach's legendary Bach week also early in August, and open-air opera at Augsburg and Heidelberg, followed in September by the Berlin Festival centering on Herbert von Karajan. West Berlin has become as racy as it was in the '30s, drawing Americans by the hundreds with dozens of cafés offering every variety of decadence...
...creator of this populist style was born in 1904 in Lebanon, Ohio. He was a set designer and stage manager before he took his theatrical flair into industrial design. One of Wright's earliest and handsomest pieces, designed in the mid-'30s, was a "corn set" made of chromium-plated brass and consisting of a 5¼-in.-high melted-butter pitcher and salt and pepper shakers on a tray. His first popular hit was an assortment of spun aluminum accessories: vases, teapots, spaghetti sets and "sandwich humidors," all buffed to a pewter sheen. In a burst...
Your article "Whatever Became of the Future?" [June 27] made me think of the past. I grew up in the '30s, when Walter Gropius, Marcel Breuer and other Bauhaus architects were beginning to influence American architecture. During the building boom that followed World War II, I looked forward to seeing homes and office buildings that would excel the architecture of previous eras. I was disappointed. Few American buildings in the past 40 years have equaled the beauty of Monticello, the White House, the Chrysler Building, or even the average American home built prior to the war. Perhaps next year...
Cole Porter was not alone. In his time, the '20s and '30s, the whole world was bewitched by the strange case of a human chameleon so eager to be liked that he developed the capacity literally to change accent, shape and even color in order to ingratiate himself with whomever he happened to be with. One day Scott Fitzgeraid noticed him at a Gatsby-like Long Island party; the next, he was sitting in with a black jazz band at a Chicago speakeasy. Soon enough, Presidents and prizefighters, pundits and publishers were seeking him out. And where they...