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...burning of the University of Louvain's Renaissance library, with thousands of irreplaceable books and manuscripts. U. S. colleges, universities, women's clubs, school children, actors, policemen gave more than $1,000,000 to restore the library. In 1928 the new library was dedicated. Designed by famed Architect Whitney Warren, it was built of white stone and red brick, had a tall spire and a carillon of 48 bells...
...Architect Warren did not consider the building complete. He wanted an inscription: Furore Teutonico Diruta: Dono Americano Restituta ("Destroyed by Teuton Fury; Restored by American Gift"). On the ground that the inscription was "likely to breed hatred," Architect Warren was overruled...
...States Housing Authority; Helen Hall, director of the Henry Street Settlement House in New York City; Commissioner Arthur S. Fleming of the United States Civil Service; John N. Edy, executive assistant of the Federal Works Agency; Dr. Morris R. Mitchell of Alabama State Teachers College; Albert Mayer, New York architect; and Maurice J. Tobin, mayor of Boston...
...Woman) and her second husband, Broker Hubert Charles Winans, moved into a fabulous Manhattan duplex apartment, with a 30-by-40-ft., two-story-high living room (which lacked nothing, said Caricaturist Covarrubias, except six or seven Cadillacs), a nine-foot painting of Author Brush. As his swan song, Architect Joseph Urban added an even more fabulous workroom-a round, soundproof, redwood-paneled tour de force resembling a swanky silo. There Katharine Brush settled down at a 15-foot semicircular desk to turn out more novels, short stories, scenarios of the sort that had made her one of the highest...
...these additions too have had an architect. An architect who entered the House and began his work when the last carpenter had left. An architect with a fast, springy walk, a vigorous swing in his left arm, a romping puppy at his heels. An architect who knew mathematics as few men do, and had revealed its mysteries to thirty years of wondering classes. That too, was ten years ago. Today "Sandy," the romping puppy, is gone. If you looked closely, you might see that just a little of the spring in the step, just a little of the swing...