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...projects, costs to builders were $6,800,000 more than mortgages. However, according to the law, builders should have invested more than twice as much ($14.2 million) of their own money as they did. ¶ In FHA applications, many builders valued land at five times its actual cost; architect's fees were put as high as ten times their cost...
...side, were wined and dined, given "girl parties," and outright bribes. Worst culprit: Assistant FHA Commissioner Clyde L. Powell, 58, boss of the rental-housing program since 1942, who is now serving a one-year jail sentence for refusing to answer a grand jury's questions. One architect said that he paid Powell a $10,000 bribe, and Powell's bank statements showed deposits of $218,330 between 1945 and 1954 while his Government income was only $8,265 during that period...
Flow Patterns. Conceived five years ago by its energetic director, Cancer Surgeon Randolph Lee Clark Jr., Anderson incorporates virtually all the features that any hospital architect, administrator or doctor has ever suggested to promote efficiency and comfort. The difference begins at the doors. Patients enter the building (shaped like a letter T, but with an added crossbar like an F) from the west, doctors and nurses from the south, administrative personnel from the southeast, research workers from the east, students from the north. In the wings housing the hospital's 310 beds, vertical and horizontal flow have been skillfully...
...Bachelor, a young and successful architect is on the point of marrying a "calculating'' divorcee when a sweet young thing from his home town breezes into his apartment-and gets...
Died. Baron Erik Fleming, 60, court silversmith of Sweden, architect, sculptor and painter, whose more than 7,000 elegantly wrought coffee sets, platters and vases in gold and silver won him international fame, and whose strikingly simple, mass-produced designs were reflected in household appliances in thousands of postwar homes; in Stockholm...