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...Attended with Mrs. Roosevelt Easter church services day after her trip to Dedham, Mass, to see her niece-namesake, Eleanor Roosevelt, married to a young British architect, Edward P. Elliott. Sunday evening, Mrs. Roosevelt boarded a plane for Los Angeles to see her eldest son, Captain James Roosevelt, marry Miss Romelle Schneider, Mayo Clinic nurse...
...Fort Meade's architect-engineer (Baltimore's seasoned J. E. Greiner Co.) recommended building the camp on the old World War I site, utilizing sewers and roads. The Army insisted on a new site with practically no roads, no utilities, but plenty of sewerage problems...
Seasons in Reverse. Thus did Adolf Hitler apostrophize his beloved season, spring. His ambition, which he has often avowed, is to be an architect-not only of heroic buildings; but also of mankind in his image. And spring is his building season. "Just now," he said in a recent speech, "I am feeling particularly vigorous. Spring is coming...
...Government got a present: the largest marble building in the world. The building was the National Gallery of Art. The two creators of the building were not present at its formal opening : they were both dead - Donor Andrew W. Mellon, onetime Secretary of the Treasury, and Architect John Russell Pope. The building alone cost $15,000,000; the art masterpieces that went with it were valued at $50,000,000. The Gallery, which spread its great, windowless length 782 ft. along Constitution Avenue, diagonally opposite the Smithsonian Institution, had a massive rotunda patterned after the Pantheon in Rome...
...excluding the work of all artists who had not been dead for 20 years tabooed all moderns. As Luxembourg to its Louvre, Washington has plans for another museum, the Smithsonian Gallery of Art. The competition for the Gallery's design was won two years ago by famed Finnish Architect Eliel Saarinen and associates. But, so far, the Smithsonian Gallery is still in the planning stage...