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...often catch features an artist painting from life would almost surely miss. Next he builds up a sort of terrain map of the facial mounds and crevices -and before he starts his portrait in color he makes several black-and-white working drawings that look almost like architect's plans (see cut, lower center...
...Department No. 1 is presided over by stern, righteous, feudal old Cordell Hull, architect of the reciprocal trade agreements, believer in old-fashioned international law, a Cabinet officer who is politically unassailable...
Died. Josiah Clement ("Josh") Wedgwood, 71, Baron Wedgwood of Barlaston, great-great grandson of the famed pottery's founder, Member of Parliament (a Liberal and later a Laborite) for 36 years; in London. Never active in his family's business, he was briefly a naval architect, a magistrate in the Transvaal, a soldier in the Boer War and in World War I (D.S.O.). Outspoken and downright, he backed Edward VIII's plan to marry Wallis Warfield, plugged an Anglo-American union for the preservation of democracy, once told Senator Burton K. Wheeler to "go soak his head...
...Marcel Proust, transported at night from Paris to the sea in a favorite taxicab. Helleu is said to have been, in part, the inspiration for the painter Elstir in Proust's great A la Recherche du Temps Perdu. Helleu often visited the U.S., saw much of the Francophile architect Whitney Warren. Warren got Helleu to design the starry blue heavens which can still be seen, faded and streaked, on the main ceiling of Manhattan's Grand Central Terminal...
...house where Louise Randall lived as a child stood above the bridge in Quincy, Mass. H. H. Richardson, great American architect, built it. In the warm haze of New England's Indian summer, life there was magical...