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Colonel Wedgwood's career shows some of the extraordinary vesatility of his distinguished ancestor, and it would be correct, as a result, to refer to him as a naval architect, a gallant army officer, an able historian, a tax expert, or a skillful parliamentarian, but not "merchant" and not "potter...
Golfer Vickers-a British-born architect now living at Forest Hills, L.I.-was understating the case: he intended to play 36. He was one of the 321 veterans competing in the U.S. Senior golf championship (for players over 55), and he expected to last the two rounds. Seniors play only two rounds instead of four, compete in classes, from E (55 to 60), to A (75 and up). Last week Oldster Vickers had 21 golfers to beat. Largest gallery followed frisky Mr. Vickers and his partner, 86-year-old Rev. William W. Leete...
...work out this plan with blueprints and models, the Association appointed one of Manhattan's most modern-minded architects: bald, 39-year-old Edward D. Stone. Architect Stone, who had already left his mark on Sixth Avenue as the chief designer of Radio City Music Hall, set to work with enthusiasm...
...luncheon of the National Conference on Planning, he sat red-faced through a speech by Architect Walter H. Thomas, who declared: "Most of our American cities are a flop, so far as being decent places in which to live and work. They are encumbered with the two bad twins of blight and flight and an attitude of 'who cares?' Philadelphia is afflicted with all three. . . . Instead of cleaning out our slums we apparently are waiting for them to disintegrate...
...other end of the dooryard they brooded like a couple of aging hens over a porcelain egg. Grumbled George: "Those buildings they're putting up aren't adequate. Candidly I never saw a carriage shed anywhere like those out there. That's just an architect's imagination, that is." Said Brother Henry philosophically: "Well, we want these things to be where people can see and study them." Descended from a long line of Pennsylvania Dutch, they were brought up in a well-to-do farming family, studied engineering at Lehigh University. Henry, a mining engineer, worked...