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...emery board, and so on, grudging the seconds wasted, when suddenly it occurred to me that the different tools might be at tached to various fingers. At the dentist's I borrowed some wax to mold a thimble and began to experiment with my idea." An artist and architect who uses her hands a great deal, Mrs. Greneker experimented with different materials for her tool-carrying thimbles. After discarding wax, she tried leather and cellophane, finally chose silver, christened her gadgets "Fingertips." Last week, with patents applied for, she gave a demonstration in Manhattan for friends and newshawks...
...university president of his time, the regents of the University heckled him for his liberal views on education and student behavior, and for his refusal to let Michigan politicians dispose of University money. Disappointed, he resigned after four years. Almost immediately he divorced his wife, daughter of a Boston architect, on grounds of cruelty and technical desertion. He gave her and their two sons and daughter every dollar he owned (about $100,000), and at the age of 41 started life anew...
...turn of the Century and in the years that immediately followed, when John Singer Sargent was painting socialite portraits in the British manner, Henry James was preaching the superiority of European civilization, and Architect Stanford White felt that a copy of a Spanish Cathedral's bell tower was the proper thing for a horse show and prizefight auditorium, a few U. S. artists began discovering the American Scene. Many of them were born in Philadelphia, most of them were influenced by the earlier painting of Philadelphia's Thomas Eakins, all of them lived and worked in New York...
Fifty-three-year-old Walter Gropius has architecture in his blood. His great uncle was an architect. His father was a member of the Berlin Building Commission. Educated at technical schools in Berlin and Munich, he built his first houses in 1906, by 1910 had already designed an undecorated factory with great screen walls of windows, later a standard practice in the International Style. He was passionately interested in low-cost housing and an architecture that would need to borrow nothing from traditional styles. When the War came, he fought in the Imperial Army, and it was not until after...
...real name is Paul; he was named for his late great father, but his mother always called him by the Danish diminutive. Half-Danish, half-French with a dash of Peruvian, Pola Gauguin was born in Paris, brought up in Copenhagen, lives now in Oslo, Norway. An architect, art critic, painter in his own right, 54-year-old Pola Gauguin has five canvases in the National Gallery at Oslo, but has never attempted to set either the Seine or the South Seas on fire...