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...This week Tokyo announced that' the Empire's Naval Minister, Shigetaro Shimada, stocky, cherry-lipped architect of Japan's most recent naval disasters (TIME, July 3), had been dropped from the Cabinet. But it was not an out-&-out sacking. Shimada will keep his other job as Chief of Naval Staff, thus be able to devote full time to finding tactical remedies for the Empire's critical plight in the Pacific. His successor as Naval Minister: Admiral Naokuni Nomura,* expert in submarine and torpedo techniques...
...Frank Lloyd Wright, No. 1 U.S. modernist architect. Wright would "get further" if he "tried an experiment on a reasonable scale, frankly called it an experiment . . . refrained from announcing that it was the pattern of all future American living...
Died. Benjamin H. Marshall, 70, design-for-living architect; of a heart ailment; in Chicago. He. designed Chicago's Blackstone, Drake and Edgewater Beach hotels, New York's Maxine Elliott Theater and Philadelphia's Forrest, for himself designed a pink, gaudy, tricked-up house which boasted a Ming bed that slept seven, a dining table that came up with the soup course, sank to the kitchen below, came back with the chicken and gravy...
Michigan's Senator Arthur Vandenberg, the chief Senatorial architect of G.O.P. foreign policy, cannot bear the Hatch digs at the G.O.P. any longer. He rises...
...Harvard School of Design is now offering a new photographic exhibition of many Pacific Coast buildings designed by the modernistic architect, William W. Wurster. His 30 years of work, consisting of country houses, town houses, and public and commercial buildings will be part of the presentation at Robinson Hall, open daily to the public...