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...around the Alps, south into Austria; of pneumonia; in San Antonio. A disciplinarian with "a temper like the devil before dawn," Sandy Patch also had deadpan wit and a soldier's knowledge of Kipling. A month before he died, he got the top job of his soldiering lifetime: architect-in-chief -of the postwar U.S. Army...
...refer to TIME's "piece" [Sept. 24] on the Imperial Hotel of Tokyo, Japan: I happen to be the architect, and the time-honored formula for an untimely finish seems to be already well into its second stage where TIME is concerned. The formula is: first, Success, then, Arrogance, then Downfall. I refer to an all too arrogant falsehood in the piece, which was not only a gross misrepresentation of my sentiments but proving in black & white that TIME can be a reckless liar...
...facts: Domei reported the hotel management's request, and TIME disrespectfully condensed arrogant Architect Wright's adjectival reaction...
Engineer Severud does not go so far as Architect Wright, who thinks that Manhattan buildings should have floors which ascend spirally. Says Severud: "It is inconvenient to live and work on surfaces which are not flat and level...
...Architect Wright has never built anything in Manhattan before. He improved the occasion by lecturing the newsmen on art & life. He called the big grey Metropolitan Museum, a few blocks away on Fifth Avenue, an "undemocratic," outdated stone quarry. Rooms should only be about 12 ft. high, he explained, so people will not be made to feel insignificant. Pointing to his model, he sermonized: "Democracy demands this type of building. The thing you can't get any more in church you ought to get here; the health, vitality and beauty of the human imagination...