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...never have done so well as an artist. With his wife, he fled Paris a jump ahead of the German army in 1940 and spent three disconsolate months near Toulouse. There he did the first landscapes of his career-neatly representational sketches that might have been made by an architect on vacation. Then he wandered back to Paris and spent the rest of the war years turning out cubist paintings based on his landscape sketches...
...Washington, Lorenzo Winslow, White House architect and historian, snorted. The land on which the White House was built, said he, was purchased by the U.S. Government about 1790 from one David Burns. Its title is free & clear. Nevertheless, a representative for the Spanish families will shortly depart for Washington with a load of aged document, to hire a lawyer and put in a claim...
...brainchild of a 47-year-old architect named Marcel Breuer, who made himself known 24 years ago by inventing tubular steel chairs (in Germany's longtime Mecca of modern architects, the Bauhaus school of design). Architect Breuer came to the U.S. in 1937, taught for nine years at Harvard under his old Bauhaus boss, Walter Gropius, before setting up in business in Manhattan...
Breuer had designed the museum's demonstration house to sell for $27,475, not counting the land, the furniture (which he also had a hand in) or the architect's fee. By lopping off the garage and one of the three bedrooms, the job could be had for about $21,960, which would still seem pretty steep to the typical "middle-income family" that Breuer had in mind...
...Carrillo had to be put off until midnight. Rival Houston Hotelman Jesse Jones sat it all out quietly. Dorothy Lamour tried to sing in the Emerald Room, but carefree customers swore into the microphone ("Where the hell's my seat?"), and NBC cut Dottie off the air. Architect Frank Lloyd Wright, sniffing through the hotel, found its long green corridors "depressing," concluded that it was a "tragic . . . imitation [of] Rockefeller Center out here on the prairie . . . There should be written in front of it, in great tall letters, in electric lights...