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...Federal Reserve Bank Building in Manhattan is particular about its tenants. Brokerage firms or other private financial companies are unwelcome. Two weeks ago the tenants, all on the fifth floor, consisted of two insurance agencies, an architect, a management company, and the offices of the national bank examiners and the New York State Bankers Association. To these was added last week National Credit Corp. which took space on the sixth floor occupied in part last year by New York Telephone Co. Driven rapidly forward by the Corporation's president, Mortimer Norton Buckner, things soon hummed on the Reserve building...
...Author. Oliver Hazard Perry La Farge's ancestry is a rich mixture. Some of his forbears: Benjamin Franklin. Commodore Oliver Hazard Perry, Artist John La Farge (grandfather), Architect Christopher Grant La Farge (father). Manhattan-born (1901), Author La Farge is called "Ink" by his intimates, has spent most of his life at Saunderstown, R. I. For schooling he naturally went to Groton, inevitably to Harvard. There he became one of the leading literary figures of his class, spent his summers on university archeological expeditions to Arizona and Utah. Later he investigated Indians and temples in Guatemala and Mexico, wrote...
...present on Oak Ridge, an artesian well is to be drilled in the near future, a detailed survey of the site is being made under the direction of Mr. Weld Arnold, of the new School of Geographical Exploration at Harvard, and the designs of the buildings are in the architect's hands...
Though $20,000 has been appropriated for the architects' drawings, no designer has as yet been named, Lovejoy pointed out. The time which will probably be involved in appointing an architect and a contractor by competitive bids, and in drawing up plans, will make any change in the School's headquarters unnecessary for this year, it is expected...
...upper left panel contains a row of gas-collectors atop a smelter. Below are a sculptor (Ralph Stackpole) and his assistants at work. Below these are machinists. In the upper right panel, an airplane flies above a group of toiling sleelworkers. Below is an architect's drafting room. Directly below Rivera's self-portrait, talking over the work in progress, stands a group of three. Buttonholed between Timothy Pflueger and Arthur Brown Jr. (architects) is the donor of the fresco. William L. Gerstle. A modest little man in a derby hat. Mr. Gerstle appears to be awaiting...