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Political calumny has long since obscured the moderate fact of Adolf Hitler's small talents as a young man. While his parents were still living in little Leonding not far from the Austro-German border, Adolf and his flaxen-haired mother decided he would be a painter or an architect. First obstacle was his besotted, burly father, retired cobbler and customs official. The father died when Adolf was 14. The mother was dying of a cancer. The neighbors thought lonely, daydreaming Adolf was losing his mind in sympathy for his mother's suffering because he spent all his time woodcarving...
Citizens bent on refining Pittsburgh's ebullient Mayor William Nissley McNair last fortnight took him to Kaufmann's Department Store to see "Broadacre City," a scale model of a modernistic decentralized community by Radical Architect Frank Lloyd Wright Mayor McNair whistled, let fly: "It's all right but you could never put Democrats in there. What if they'd want to get drunk or visit somebody's wife? This thing is Utopia. I'll bet they even tell you how many babies to have in each house. I just sent a gang of drunks to the workhouse. Put that bunch...
...Mayor," snapped sinewy, grey-maned Architect Wright, "knows next to nothing about drunks, babies or Democracy." Furious Mr. Wright's opinion of Pittsburgh shortly appeared in the Sun-Telegraph: "Pittsburgh as a centralization is obsolescent...
...time the building was completed in 1840, the dazed Corporation of Trinity found itself possessed of a brownstone building embracing such popish symbols as a cross on the steeple and a deep chancel, and Richard Upjohn was the most famed architect in the U. S. Such a business in parish churches did Richard Upjohn & sons do that it has been said that if all the Upjohn churches from New York to Buffalo should be simultaneously fired at no point between the two cities would the smoke of the steeples be out of sight...
Hobart Upjohn, taking heed from his brothers, for years refused to be an architect, practiced as a civil engineer. In 1902 a letter intended for his father reached him, asking him to design a church for Watertown, N. Y. Before Hobart Upjohn could explain the mistake, he found himself awarded the contract. Watertown's vestry was quite satisfied when the church was finished, and in 1905 Hobart Upjohn found himself head of the House of Upjohn...