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...Architect Kahn, a native New Yorker who studied at Columbia and won a Prix Labarre while at the Paris Beaux-Arts, stepped boldly into the Institute chairmanship in 1933. Brisk, mustached and famed for his spaghetti suppers, he has never designed an opera house but his Squibb Building and many another chaste Manhattan skyscraper are nationally known. As a practical result, Beaux-Arts students have lately been getting assignments for esquisses and projects of automobile factories instead of orangeries. When they finish them in six weeks and ship them to New York, they are returned with crisp comments by such...
...Colonial Office. The remainder tells of his less harrowing days in the Cadet Corps. To protest the betrayal of the Arab cause at the Peace Conference, at which his promises to Arab leaders were broken, Lawrence refused his Colonial Office salary for six months, worked in an architect's office, went hungry, was down to 15 pence when he enlisted under the name of Ross. At night in the barracks he wrote the notes that make up The Mint, faithfully copying his companions' "indescribably profane and obscene conversation.'' Somewhat mysteriously Dr. Canby likens the result...
Died. Ernest Robert Graham, 68, famed, prolific Chicago architect; of high blood pressure brought on by overwork; in Chicago. Schooled by the late great Daniel H. Burnham, he collaborated in planning Chicago's 1893 Fair. In Chicago he designed or helped design the Field Museum, Union Station, Merchandise Mart ("world's largest building"), Marshall Field department store, Civic Opera and Wrigley Buildings; in Manhattan, Wanamaker's and Gimbel's stores, the Flatiron, Equitable and Chase National Bank Buildings; for Washington, the Union Station and General Post Office; California's Mount Wilson Observatory...
Under the departmental heading LIFE on the American Newsfront, was depicted the new San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge. Superimposed on this aerial view was what no camera can yet show: The architect's drawing of the island which is to be built for the 1939 San Francisco World's Fair. Other featured items of picture-news were Louisiana's "Moses" foundling; the spectacular death of Minnesota's Dr. Joseph Graham Mayo, who drove his automobile up a railroad track; awards for diction and genius, respectively, to Actress Ina Claire and Playwright Eugene O'Neill...
...celebrity-hunter, falling for all manner of artistic fakers but preserving a strong streak of hard-headed commonsense. Her European experiences, which ended as she returned to the U. S. filled with dread for the "ugly" future, were of the "not quite" variety-she was almost unfaithful to her architect husband, nearly left him, came close to killing herself...