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...Among them: Contralto Marian Anderson, Cellist Pablo Casals, Educator James B. Conant, Virologist John F. Enders, Justice (retired) Felix Frankfurter, Inventor (Polaroid camera) Edwin H. Land, Bankers Robert A. Lovett and John J. McCloy, Architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Steelman Clarence B. Randall, Pianist Rudolf Serkin, Photographer Edward Steichen, Authors E. B. White, Thornton Wilder and Edmund Wilson, and Painter Andrew Wyeth...
Kennedy was still brooding over the matter at a naval reunion in April 1962, when he spotted a familiar face in the crowd. "What's Rose Bowl doing now?" he asked Navy Under Secretary Paul Fay Jr. "He's a very successful architect," Fay replied. "Have him give me a call," said Kennedy...
...Francisco architect, Warnecke grew up in the informal redwood tradition of Bernard Maybeck, struck out on his own in 1950 after his father's firm grew too cramped. He won his first national acclaim with a series of Bay Area schools. In 1956 he struck into the international field, won a State Department commission to build the Thailand embassy. His "floating pagoda" design (provided that Congress authorizes funds) will match the mood of Bangkok's temples as it rises airily on slender white stilts...
...articles make some good points, but these points are usually obvious. The central theme is that the architect and planner must be modern Renaissance men in whom specialized training has not killed creativity and humanistic values...
...architect has been selected yet to design, the building, Pusey stated. However, John, Warnecke, a California architect who is delighting the Kennedy tomb at Arlington, has been mentioned for the project...