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Died. James Gamble Rogers, 80, architect of the old school, whose modern masterwork is Manhattan's enormous Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center, and whose quainter works include many college buildings (one Rogers building at Yale is Gothic on one side, Georgian on the other); in his Medical Center...
...lost, however, for Jay Skinner '48, band manager, announced that he would serenade Washington from the Capitol steps. Permission to play Sunday afternoon at 1:30 o'clock was obtained yesterday from Chief Architect Lynd of the Capitol in a long distance phone call...
...wrestling is John Harkness, captain of the '39 team and Eastern Intercollegiate champion at 175 pounds when he was at college. Harkness lost an 8 to 7 decision to Wittenberg just before the war and holds the distinction of being the man most nearly to beat Henry. Now an architect in the Boston area, Harkness worked out at the Indoor Athletic Building twice a week last winter. In the lighter classes Harvard chances, in fact Eastern chances, are grim; for traditionally the light and middleweights come from Oklahoma, which for 25 years has been the grappling center...
...Came Poetry. He and the hotel architect had agreed that his theme should be "Sunday in the Alameda" (the city's finest park, opposite the Prado). But Rivera, like his fellow triumvirs of Mexican art, Siqueiros and Orozco, was no man to waste a big hunk of wall on a merely pastoral theme. He had crammed his picture of the Alameda with the villains and heroes, the blood and dreams, of Mexican history. Said he: "Every one of the 148 figures in this mural I have known personally. I've shaken hands with most of them...
Freedom's Architect. Mountbattenji drew the biggest applause of the day when he said: "At this historic moment let us not forget all that India owes to Mahatma Gandhi-the architect of her freedom through nonviolence. We miss his presence here today and would have him know how he is in our thoughts...