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Died. George Burdett Ford, 51, Manhattan architect, early advocate of regional planning, consulting engineer and architect for New York and 70 other cities, including rebuilt Rheims, France; after an operation in Manhattan...
...codified the existing hand signs of his day, invented new ones and created the first intelligible means of communication for the deaf. He was a Roman Catholic priest, canon of the Cathedral of Troyes, son of Louis XIV's architect...
...Most famed "anti-seismic" building is the Imperial Hotel at Tokyo, the creation of Architect Frank Lloyd Wright, which successfully withstood the 1923 quake. Its foundations are insloping, not vertical...
...young unmarried landscape architects bent over drawing boards for four weeks, competing for this year's fellowship in landscape architecture at the American Academy in Rome. Last week they were lodged in Manhattan's Grand Central art galleries. A large wash drawing of a colonial country estate and a sheaf of complementary sketches won the prize for Richard Coolidge Murdock, Cornell graduate, son of Architect Harris Hunnewell Murdock of Manhattan. Among his perquisites will be $1,550 a year for three years, $500 travel money, an airy comfortable studio on the Janiculum in Rome, entree into Roman diplomatic society...
...Decorator & Architect James Monroe Hewlett's astronomical ceiling for the Grand Central Terminal is not on canvas but painted (upside down by mistake) directly on the plastered vault...