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...Architect Frank Lloyd Wright, long in the habit of addressing himself boldly to posterity, celebrated his 86th birthday by spouting pronouncements on everything from the skyscraper ("Ought to go out into the country . . . cast its shadow on its own ground") to the drift toward equalitarianism ("Going to be the death of democracy"). Then, with boyish glee, he burbled: "As for me, if I felt any better I couldn't stand...
...beside his house in six days, suggested that the government build an island off Waikiki and announced a plan to put $110 million into new resorts. Last week H.J. began to back his words with actions. After a quick trip to Los Angeles to line up financing, consult with Architect Welton Becket and a representative of Conrad Hilton, Kaiser plunked down $491,000 for more beachfront, thus became Waikiki's biggest landowner (16½ acres...
...Charles William Eliot II '20, nationally known landscape architect, regional planner, and grandson of the late President Eliot. The chair he will assume is the Charles Eliot Professorship of Landscape Architecture named after his uncle, who was also a landscape architect...
...should rule Britannia? Suave Sir Anthony Eden, 57, ensconced at last in No. 10 Downing Street after faithful years in the shade of the giant Churchill? Or Clement Attlee, 72, the plain and comfortable architect of the postwar Welfare State? The Conservatives, heirs to Pitt and Disraeli and Churchill, scions of the best schools and families, trustees of the government for the past 3½ years? Or ' the Laborites, offspring of the coalpits, workshops and the London School of Economics...
...course no gratitude in politics," commented the Manchester Guardian. "But it... does seem a little curious that the Tory Party should have dropped Sir Winston . . . absolutely, as if he had become a liability, almost an outcast." Before the week was out, Eden dispatched an amends-seeking note to "the architect of our success . . . the leader under whom I have been so proud to serve." It was one of Eden's few fumbles, and betrayed his felt need to emerge from the shadow as a leader...