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Thus last week wrote Columnist Heywood Broun of Raymond Mathewson Hood who at 40 was penniless and obscure and who, when he died of arthritis last week at 53, was as famed as any architect in the U. S. A childhood with religious parents in Pawtucket, R. I. made him so rigorous a Baptist that, when he entered the Beaux Arts in Paris, he refused even to look at Notre Dame because it was Catholic. Later he lost the vigor of his religious beliefs but never his lusty delight in arguments, his habit of sloppy dressing, his inordinate liking...
Twelve years ago Hood was a clientless architect in Manhattan, married and $10,000 in debt. News came that a design he had drawn for the $7,000,000 Chicago Tribune Tower had won its $50,000 competition prize. He had to borrow to buy an overcoat to travel to Chicago and collect his money. Because he had submitted his design from the office of John Mead Howells he had to turn $40,000 of his prize over to that New York architect. Soon he had all the commissions he wanted. A strident exponent of functionalism, a reckless experimenter...
...such potent concerns as Charles G. Blake Co. of Chicago who built the $100,000 Gary mausoleum, and Presbrey-Leland Studios Inc. of Manhattan who erected the $300,000 William Rockefeller mausoleum at Tarrytown, N. Y. Most big firms do their work on contract, employ their own designers. Architect Raymond Mathewson Hood who died last week (see p. 28) once worked for Presbrey-Leland. The bigger firms are apt to buy their materials from manufacturers like Rock of Ages of Barre, Vt., J. D. Sargent Co. of Mt. Airy, N. C., Georgia Marble Co. of Tate, Jones Bros...
...forcing CWA workers to contribute to his political support, Lydia Cady Langer went out on the stump and campaigned to win her husband renomination (TIME, June 25). A frail woman with four children and little political experience, Mrs. Langer is the daughter of the late James Cleveland Cady, Manhattan architect who designed the Metropolitan Opera House. After her marriage 16 years ago in a Riverside Drive apartment, she went West with "Bill" Langer and left her New York ways and words forever behind her. When North Dakota's farmers heard her stump speeches they decided she was the right kind...
...offered $15,000 for a new base if the city would give $10,000. The city agreed. But an architect's committee argued so long that the time limit for the city appropriation was exceeded and the Pulitzers had to make up the $10,000 difference. Finally selected was a waterproof Italian marble from Trieste which would not crack or chip. But it cost $35,000. Once again the Brothers Pulitzer made up the $10,000 difference. In less than 20 years they had spent $45,000 of their own on their father's $50,000 statue...