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...mother house of the Society of St. John the Evangelist (Cowley Fathers), oldest (1865) order of priests in the Anglican communion. Present last week to lay the cornerstone of a chapel dedicated to St. Mary, Mother of God, were Episcopal Suffragan Bishop Samuel Gavitt Babcock of Massachusetts, pious Architect Ralph Adams Cram, Glassman Charles Jay Connick, able Organist Everett Titcomb, and Rev. Spence Burton, U. S. superior of the black-cassocked Cowley Fathers...
...aggregation of prosperous utility properties controlled by Promoter Harley Lyman Clarke's Utilities Power & Light Corp. Promoter Clarke had picked them up in the 1920's while he was pyramiding his $400,000,000 holding company. In the field of financial pyramiding Promoter Clarke was an architect with considerable imagination. He it was who piled his General Theatres Equipment, Inc. on top of Fox Film early in Depression, a heroic achievement which cost Chase National Bank many a million, sent two members of the New York Stock Exchange to the wall, led to the complete collapse...
...many of their hopes to tragic frustrations. But they can admire without reservation his narrative style, bare but not bleak, naturalistic but not dull, and his cunning blend of the literary and the colloquial. Dos Passos believes that a writer's modest job is to be an "architect of history." He never talks about creation in connection with his work. His job, he feels, is simply to arrange the materials, confining any artistic high jinks to decoration that will enhance the outlines of the building without weakening its structure...
...glass for eleven years, studied his subject more & more deeply, often wished he could completely approximate 13th Century windows by making his own glass instead of using the "stock" colors of commercial furnaces. Then one day he chanced to see in a yellowed newspaper clipping a photograph of the architect's model for the National Cathedral...
Beauteous Lisa is a humble stenographer in Hamid's office. She hates Kravnik. Her brother Primo, an ambitious young architect (temporarily unemployed), likes Kravnik. On the floor below them lives a mysterious Albanian. He hates Kravnik. And he has a really first-hand reason: as a baby he lived in the forest that was cut down in order that Kravnik might be. The Albanian is still just an untamed peasant at heart, but he has had a wonderful chemical training. In fact, he has discovered a new high explosive with which he plans to blow up Kravnik building...