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...known it for months. Boyd and his mistress come to Mary to ask her for a divorce but she contemptuously refuses to give up Boyd and wreck a home for an infatuation. Only when Mary's younger sister, Cecily Reid (Helen Chandler) confesses her own affair with her architect-employer, husband of a woman much older than himself, does Mary consent to a divorce. But Christine has a change of heart, leaves Boyd...
Leroy S. Buffington, in 1830, was a young Minneapolis architect with an idea. He had conceived a building which he called a "cloud scraper." Simple was the construction principle ? a steel skeleton with a shelf at each floor to hold the sur face masonry. He took out patents on it. Since then, almost every skyscraper in the world has been built on Mr. Buffington's principle. Last week, Architect Buffington, 89, received a check for $2,250 as royalties on the construction on the 25-story Rand Building, in Minneapolis. It was the first time, despite eleven infringement suits...
Died. Edward Palmer York, 63, Manhattan architect (York & Sawyer?Bowery Savings Bank, Guaranty Trust Building, Pershing Square Building), of Princeton, N. J. & Stonington, Conn.; after an operation; in Manhattan. Like many a famed architect, Mr. York served his apprenticeship with McKim...
...that it was a separate enterprise which he had been planning since 1924, when his personal automobile business began to be well under way. "I like to build things," he said. "I like to do things. I am having a lot of fun going thoroughly into everything with the architect...
...Dimensional Vistas. When Einstein came to the U. S., Bragdon was one of the first named as belonging to that hypothetical "ten" who understood the master's theory of relativity. Especially was Claude Bragdon interested in mathematical metaphysics as applied to esthetics, for by profession he is an architect. Among his buildings is the New York Central Railroad Station at Rochester, N. Y., in which town he lives...