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...Fair and in the Library of Congress, and one-man shows in Detroit and Manhattan gave him a U.S. reputation. But things have not always gone well with him at home. He painted the Via Sacra on the walls of a modern church near Belo Horizonte, which Architect Oscar Niemeyer, friend and fellow Communist, designed. The archbishop refused to consecrate the church (TIME, May 13, 1946). Says Portinari: "The priests don't like my way of expressing, sacred things. They want Virgins that look like Ingrid Bergman and Christs like Robert Taylor. For me, a saint is a saint...
...business grew, she acquired a 90-acre estate on Long Island. But social demands were never allowed to conflict with business. Soon after she married her second husband, an architect named Robert L. Dodge, he went to work for the company...
...commission appointed by Coventry's Bishop Neville Vincent Gorton announced this week what they had found to be the popular feeling: Coventry should be rebuilt in the English Gothic form with a traditional stone nave vault and plenty of stained glass. Since the job will take years, the architect should be young. Above all, added the commission, the new cathedral "should not be in violent contrast...
Homemade Bakery. Recently, when business outgrew the garage, Mrs. Rudkin resolved her trouble in characteristic fashion. She sketched her idea of an ideal baking operation, complete with sloping tables for hand-kneading the bread. Then she drew a floor plan to house it. When she handed it to the architect, she warned him: You do the outside and the stairways, but don't change my plans." Last week Mrs. Rudkin and her 160 employees roudly moved into their new $625,000 plant. A U-shaped concrete building, it has a capacity of 4,000 loaves an hour. With...
...oldest college in the U.S. had honored its past by inviting men from all over the world to discuss the World's future. Throughout the year, hundreds of statesmen and scholars, including Historian Arnold J. Toynbee, Philosopher William E. Hocking, Physicists Karl T. Compton and J. Robert Oppenheimer, Architect Frank Lloyd Wright, Biologist J. B. S. Haldane, had come & gone...