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...since Depression. Among the other 14 are the hotels operated by the Hotel Sherman Co. (the quiet Ambassador East, the gay Ambassador West, the sporty Sherman, the Fort Dearborn where railroad men like to stay), and the roomy, rambling Hotel Drake which has been operated since 1932 by its architect, Benjamin H. Marshall. Fortnight ago the president of Hotel Sherman Co., Ernest Lessing ("Ernie") Byfield, Chicago's best-known hotelkeeper, followed his four hotels into receivership, filed a personal petition in bankruptcy in Federal Court. Last week Architect-Manager Marshall of the Drake did likewise. Hotelman Byfield still...
Evelyn Nesbit was born 49 years ago in Tarentum, Pa. She got a chorus job in Floradora, became the mistress of Architect Stanford White. In 1905 she married rich, lecherous Harry Kendall Thaw, who already had a grudge against White. On June 25, 1906 Thaw and his wife attended a show on the roof of Madison Square Garden. There without warning Thaw shot White dead. At the trial the Thaw defense was temporary insanity ("a brain storm''). Acquitted of murder, Thaw was committed to an asylum for the criminally insane. He enjoyed enough freedom to begat a child...
Death, as it must to all men, came last week to Cass Gilbert, 74, architect, in Brockenhurst, England. Had not a sudden heart attack laid him low in a bedroom of pleasant, rambling Balmer Lawn Hotel, he, his wife and daughter would have left in two days for Southampton and the U. S. Behind him Cass Gilbert left many a great building to keep his memory alive through many a long year...
Besides the Woolworth design, Mr. Gilbert's greatest-in-size was the huge George Washington Bridge over the Hudson River, for which he was consultant architect and which, against his wishes, was never encased in granite. Two Gilbert buildings were in construction at the moment of his death: the new $9,700,000 U. S. Supreme Court building in Washington (TIME, Oct. 24, 1932), a $10,700,000 Federal Court House for Manhattan...
...aged Poet Longfellow, appeared in the Atlantic Monthly. Otherwise, though she was a voracious reader and secret soliloquizer of stories, she conformed to the easy strictness of her station, making her debut in Manhattan and at 23 marrying Edward Wharton, Boston banker. Her first book, a collaboration with Architect Ogden Codman on The Decoration of Houses (1897), was daringly modern, surprised everybody by being a success. Soon she was well launched on her literary path. Few of her social acquaintance gave her any encouragement. "My literary success puzzled and embarrassed my old friends far more than it impressed them...