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When heavy-jowled Stanford White, one of the country's most talented architects, was commissioned to design the original Madison Square Garden, an arena in New York to house circuses, horse shows, prize fights, dog shows, a beer garden and cabaret, he found it suitable to clap a copy of Seville's Giraldo Tower on one side and then get his good friend Augustus St. Gaudens to set a 13-ft. nude Greek goddess tiptoe on the Moorish-Gothic-Renaissance cathedral belfry. Beyond its inappropriateness, the Garden tower was a lovely thing and New York cherished her Diana...
Because his wife, the former Didi H. Muus, is Norwegian, Mr. Cohu built for her at Southampton a summer home like a Norwegian mountain house. A Norwegian architect designed it, Norwegian craftsmen were imported to make the wood carvings. Mrs. Cohu named the house Gissa Bu. Her husband, who has never been to Norway, says he does not know what Gissa Bu means...
...their stay in Bognor. Nothing happens except that for two weeks they all breathe free. Their mutual affection, having survived the cooping of their poor city life, turns outward to the world at large. Mr. Stevens meets old cronies at the pub; Dick has an inspiration to become an architect; Mary does a little sparking on the sly. After their breath of fresh air they return to London, to be again submerged...
Hector Hamilton, 28, 5 ft. 5 in., is only recently an Orangeman. Born a Briton, he came to the U. S. 14 years ago determined to be an architect. He studied at New York's Cooper Union, joined the real estate firm of Frank H. Taylor & Son, Inc. More to keep his hand in than anything else, he entered the Soviet contest...
...citizen's privilege. There is just as great a distinction between a Reserve Officer's Commission and a job as Letter Carrier, Fireman, Dog Catcher, or Street Cleaner, as there is between a professor of Greek literature and the proprietor of a Greek restaurant; or as between an architect and a brick-layer. The mere wearing of a uniform is no sign of boorishness, nor is it the disgraceful badge of submission to a system. In fact, the season is approaching when even the aesthetes put on their traditional caps and gowns...