Word: alberts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Three Belgian refugee children were returned from Portugal to their father in Brussels: Princess Josephine Charlotte, 12, Crown Prince Baudouin, 9, Prince Albert, 6, offspring of King Leopold...
Died. Dr. Frederick Albert Cook, 75, surgeon and explorer whose claim that in 1908 he discovered the North Pole was denied by rival discoverer Peary; following a cerebral hemorrhage; in New Rochelle, N. Y. Jailed (1925-30) on a charge of mail fraud in promoting an oil company, he was pardoned by President Roosevelt barely three weeks...
...Albert Kahn is a small, merry, 71-year-old architectural genius who spent his youth in a penny-pinching struggle to support an immigrant family of ten (including an impractical Rabbi father). He was 34 when the late Henry B. Joy, president of young Packard Motor Car Co., walked in and asked him to design a factory...
...When I began," says Albert Kahn, "the real architects would design only museums, cathedrals, capitols. The office boy was considered good enough to do factory buildings. I'm still that office boy." He still makes other architects uncomfort able by calling architecture "90% business and 10% art." Unlike his equally functional-minded contemporary, Frank Lloyd Wright, who gets a free hand from his clients, Kahn preaches to his staff that the client's analysis of the problem is the first step to its solution. Clients who have appreciated this approach include (besides virtually the entire automotive industry...
...artistic (10%) nature. He takes on a residence, and the firm, geared to turn out industrial designs on a mass-production basis, loses money on the job. Usually in Georgian or Tudor tradition, it ill compares with the utilitarian beauty of its factory brothers. But it is "Albert's baby," and nobody minds...