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...notebook. Those were the days, he thought. The Renaissance, the rebirth of an old culture and the birth of a new one; that was the time when he should have lived. He would certainly have been another Da Vinci, an artist at everything. He could see himself now; architect, inventor, poet--Vag leaned back perilously in his chair--the full man. What chance did he have today--the chair jerked forward again--in a regimented world where you had to stick in one rut till you died in it? Could anyone live the full life today? Vag sported, then blew...
EPISODE ON WEST 8TH STREET-Jule Brousseau-Smith & Durrell ($2.50). A murky, painstaking story of a few New Yorkers: a distraught sweatshop Jew who kills his boss, an unemployed architect and his wife, a suicidal Polish girl from the Pennsylvania coal patches. Rather Greenwich-Villagesque, but definitely talented...
...schools of London and Parts to New York in 1938. Famed as the creator of the Purism movement in modern art, he has exhibited regularly in Paris and other centers since 1910. In France he founded the review "L'Elan" and, in collaboration with Le Corbusier, the famous French architect, he published the review "L'Esprit Nouveau," beginning in 1920. The latter had important influence on the development of modern...
...artistic success is due primarily to the solution of a problem that has been curling architects' hair since the machine age began: the problem of coordinating the art of architecture with the science of engineering. TVA has kept anonymous its thousands of artistic-minded engineers and efficient-minded designers. But the main responsibility for coordinating the true and the beautiful in TVA has been two men's: Chief Engineer Theodore Bissell Parker, Reserve Lieut. Colonel (Engineers), and Principal Architect Roland Anthony Wank...
...cathedral's troubles began when an overenthusiastic congregation and architect went ahead on a $2,000,000 structure though only $400,000 had been raised. Work stopped early in the depression when $600,000 had been spent, one section completed. Since then, finances have gone from bad to worse. Last May the mortgage-holder, Mercantile-Commerce Bank & Trust Co. of St. Louis, foreclosed, offered to settle its $266,316 claim for $185,000, meanwhile started charging $500 a month rent. Because "even the rent had not been paid for six months, the bank at last took the keys...