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...summoned an architect to draw plans, and eventually Waterville gave him the money for a 650-acre site. At the very bottom of the depression, he launched a fund-raising campaign. On the day of his opening dinner in Boston, President Roosevelt closed the nation's banks...
William Ellery Hale, of Pasadena, the son of famed Astronomer George Ellery Hale, who built Mount Wilson Observatory, has worked in an architect's firm, a brokerage house, a bank, is now assistant treasurer of the Thermador Electrical Manufacturing Co. Married, three sons (the oldest, Princeton '50). He recalls: "I was always messy and late sending my laundry . . . so I consistently borrowed underpants and starched shirts from Steve. He kept me well laundered for four years." Says Hale: "For the first time, I'm faced with the rather frightening possibility of voting for a Democratic
...Architect-Designer Paul László, 52, is a comfort-loving Hungarian expatriate who arrived in the U.S. 16 years ago with $200 in his pocket and a one-word vocabulary: okay. Since then he has enormously expanded both. By catering to the comfort of his rich clients, he has built up a $1,5OO,000-a-year business as designer of some of the nation's most luxurious showplaces. And in his fancy Beverly Hills showroom last week, he was volubly admiring the first samples of his latest commission: $1,000,000 worth of modern furniture...
...Architect László designs his houses down to the last ashtray or built-in Kleenex holder. He protests that money is not everything: "One million dollars will not build the perfect house. You somehow can't put everything you want into it. It's largely a matter of taste, judgment and talent." But money helps...
Among his fanciest projects: the million-dollar Wichita Falls palace of Texas Oilman Charles McGaha (built in collaboration with Architect Allen Siple), which includes a horseshoe-shaped swimming pool, Lucite-legged chairs, hand-painted draperies, and a radio-controlled main gate;* and Movie Producer William Perlberg's cozier ($250,000) rambler, with swimming pool, projection room, Lucite wastebaskets and hip-high combination shelf and hearthstone. Other László clients: Gloria Vanderbilt Stokowski, Freeman (Amos 'n' Andy) Gosden, Barbara Hutton, Sonja Henie, Hollywood Director William Wyler...