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Refugees not from their own government but from the unscholarly din of European war are Britain's world-famed Bertrand Russell (soon to become a U. S. citizen); Ivor Armstrong Richards, now working on Basic English at Harvard; Anthropologist Bronislaw Malinowski at Yale. Last fortnight famed Finnish Architect Alvar Aalto, who was to direct Finland's reconstruction, changed his mind, decided to stay in the U. S. and teach at M. I. T. Latest scholarly arrivals in the U. S are University of Aberdeen's Lancelot Hog ben (Mathematics for the Million, Science for the Citizen...
...week's end the San Francisco press had raised such a hue & cry that Dr. Heil's superior, Architect Timothy Ludwig Pflueger, ordered the picture hung again. Said he: "We have been unable to verify reports that the Navy objected." Said the Navy (an aide to Admiral Arthur Hepburn) : "What fools we'd be. We've learned from earlier foolish Navy squawks against other Cadmus paintings. It does us no good and merely gives the artist publicity." Said Paul Cadmus in Manhattan: "I don't think it libels the Navy. Nobody expects or wants...
Raymond Huff proceeded to make WPA history, putting up school buildings at less than contract cost. Using 300 laborers and only four skilled tradesmen (a supervisor, electrician, plumber, concrete finisher), he built an $800,000 (architect's estimate) plant-new high school, gymnasium, agricultural building and remodeled junior high-for $550,000. His students carved, pegged, built all the furniture, tanned leather for office chairs, wove rawhide for classroom chairs, hammered hinges, lamps and other hardware from scrap iron, wove mohair rugs and draperies...
...type of steel-reinforced concrete. The Packard fac tory became the first reinforced concrete and steel sash factory in the U. S. It also had window area of revolutionary proportions and a layout planned for efficient production. With this pioneering start, Kahn became the industry's No. 1 architect-engineer, has ever since designed most of Ford's, Chrysler's, General Motors' plants...
Divorced. Sarah Palfrey Fabyan, 27, darling of U. S. and British tennis galleries; from Marshall Fabyan Jr., 28, socialite Boston architect; in Reno (after she had failed to get a divorce in Massachusetts...