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United States Hotel Architect...
...TIME (Sept. 4) you stated that the architect of the United States Hotel in Saratoga Springs was not known. You even surmised that the building had never been planned systematically...
There are others: the rich architect (George Macready) whose wife shames him into courage; the hotel barmaid (Signe Hasso) with whom Heisler spends his last night in Germany; the old delicatessen man (Felix Bressart) who finally brings him into contact with the underground. By the time George Heisler leaves Germany he knows he has a lifelong debt to pay, not only to full-time antiFascists like himself, but also to many simple human beings, who had risked helping him out of the goodness of their hearts...
...casts of some of the Cathedral's lyrical sculpture. But the surest source of data are French Government records, if they are intact. The Third Republic maintained bureaus which filed detailed descriptions of every important historic building in the country. There was also for Chartres a state-supported architect in residence, whose office knew every stone of the building...
...U.S.A. is an argument for the clean beauty and intelligence of modern architecture, it also makes obvious how much a luxury good modernism remains. Many of the buildings in the book are obviously pleasure domes of great expense. All of the buildings imply the services of a modern architect, beyond the reach of ordinary pocketbooks except in the case of a few new low-cost housing developments. Modern architecture for the general public still waits for public taste to demand it from reactionary building contractors and building-trade unions...