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...name was given to the present Hemenway Gymnasium, with the approval of the donor's family. The present Hunt Hall of the Graduate School of Design was built as a memorial of William Hayes Fogg in 1895 as an Art Museum. It is now a memorial of the architect who designed it while a much worthier memorial of Mr. Fogg is provided by the new museum on Quincy street...
Princeton's library, in the words of its librarian, Julian P. Boyd, is "Gothic on the outside and modernistic on the in side." To Modern Architect William Lescaze that seemed rather like dressing a professor in a suit of armor. Last week he wrote the New York Times an angry letter about...
Behind Two Doors. He usually eats breakfast on the sunny red-tiled loggia, practically naked ("not just in shorts, but often just wearing a handkerchief or something," says Vera). Then he dresses, plunges into his workroom, labors at a table that resembles an architect's and rivals Franklin Roosevelt's for gimcracks: rows of art gum erasers, each neatly labeled, trays of pens, pencils, different colors and kinds of inks. He has two pianos in the narrow room, a grand and an upright, and still does his composing at the piano...
...French architect collected a few scraps on the life of La Tour, but could find none of his paintings. It was not until 50 years later that a German scholar named Hermann Voss finally discovered the first ones. By now, scholars have identified about 15 of La Tour's paintings. Last week visitors, clustered in one of the galleries of the Frick, could study for themselves the special marks of his great talent-the smooth, stylized surfaces, gleaming in ghostly candlelight; the quiet faces reflecting stolid patience; a slender hand, translucent to the flame...
...John Payne and Gloria DeHaven called off their second trial separation in 3 ½ years, "because we love each other and . . . .our two children." Songstress Ginny Simms-because "we still love each other"-considered dropping her two-week-old divorce suit (their first in nearly three years) against her architect-husband Hyatt Dehn...