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...Understand Capitalism. By U.S. standards, White found many of Russia's factories unclean and inefficient, its buildings drab and shoddy. "What is missing," he asserts, "is competition. Nobody bothers to put up a striking store front or a beautifully arranged window display. . . . The architect who drew the plans for that dreary workers' apartment had to please not the people who live in it, nor the promoter-owners who hope to keep it rented, but the Government officials. . . . This does not mean that the Russian people do not want beauty ... it means that they have a poor system...
...years ago, as a member of the Sol Hurok troupe, she made another ballet exit-when the Government refused to let her go to California because of her Japanese blood. Sono, who has a brother with the Nisei 442nd combat team and is married to a young French-Moroccan architect, has never had any other trouble over race...
Irving traveled through the West with two Europeans. Count Albert-Alexandre de Pourtalès, 19, had been sent away from Switzerland to sow his wild oats in some other country. His tutor was Charles Joseph Latrobe, nephew of the architect of the Capitol, a botanist, geologist, musician, artist. With these companions Irving joined a Government expedition bound for Fort Gibson in the Indian Territory (near the present site of Tulsa, Oklahoma). Irving wrote Tour on the Prairies as a result of the trip, after filling five notebooks with his observations. The Western Journals of Washington Irving prints the notebooks...
...then Manhattan's glassy Museum of Modern Art stages a strange but provocative show. Some visitors are impervious; others leave with their bonnets abuzz. Last week, on the somewhat dusty subject, "Are Clothes Modern?," the" Museum confronted visitors with some sharp displays and comments by Austrian-born Architect-Designer Bernard Rudofsky. On the thesis that clothes are always artificial, often absurd, sometimes harmful, the exhibition ranged from clanky chest armor to bird-cage bustles...
...following classified advertisement: "LOST, STRAYED OR STOLEN-Several hundred church members ranging in practically all ages. Anyone contributing to return of same will be handsomely rewarded. No questions will be asked if the returned is willing to have a vital part in building a better world after the Master Architect's specifications. For further details attend First Presbyterian Church, 16th Place and School St., next Sunday at 11. Clarence E. Showalter, minister...