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They had arrived at 3.55 o'clock to prepare for an intellectual seating on world history. They had even adjusted themselves to the room, made dreary by Plato, Kant, and the architect. But at nine o'clock they received the terse order from the proctor that they must find Emerson H on the second floor before they could take their examination. The desperate band rushed forth only to find that Emerson H, had been carelessly misplaced for the morning...
...Well-known throughout social Manhattan are the four Damrosch daughters: Alice, a famed ski-jumper and the divorced wife of Architect Pleasants Pennington; Gretchen, who writes plays and is married to Lawyer Thomas Finletter (Coudert Bros.); Leopoldine, who plays the piano and is wife to Playwright Sidney Howard; Anita, who married Robert Littell, able author and critic...
Next day slumbering Stresa on the blossom-dotted rim of Lago Maggiore sprang to life. Excited Fascist workmen ripped up the main street from end to end. They had all but demolished the stuffy little station when an architect front Rome arrived, his mind full of modernism and marble. Snappily accoutred Fascist militiamen and plainclothes agents in all conceivable disguises arrived to put Stresa and its basking tourists under careful scrutiny. "Now that Hitler has defied the world, and Nazi agents are kidnapping and even murdering small fry abroad," said a Fascist corporal of militia grimly, "who knows what outrage...
Next July Dana Greeley will take over the pulpit once held by Rev. Ezra Gannett, first president of American Unitarian Association, and Rev. Paul Revere Frothingham. Born in Lexington, Mass., he is the son of William, Roger Greeley, architect and Unitarian layman. Enterprising but no brilliant student, at Harvard (1931) he played football a few minutes in a Yale game, was president of Delta Upsilon. At 23, before he received his Harvard divinity degree, he took a Unitarian parish in Lincoln, Mass. Last year he went to Concord, N. H., became minister-at-large to New Hampshire Unitarian churches. Dana...
Designer of American Houses' prefabricated unit is also its board chairman. Architect Robert W. McLaughlin Jr. had already achieved fashionable success as a designer of rich men's homes when he built his first prefabricated house for Jeddo-Highland Coal Co. at Hazelton, Pa. in 1932. When Depression pointed up the need for low-cost housing, he persuaded some of his Princeton classmates to help him set up a company. Meantime Architect Howard T. Fisher of Chicago, son of President Taft's Secretary of the Interior, was putting together General Houses, Inc. And three months ago Architect...