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Excavation for the $800,000 Bowl began in 1913 and was completed in time for the Harvard-Yale game of 1914. Architect Charles A. Ferry in a dedication speech termed it "the perfect stadium." But according to the Boston Globe, "Yale did the dedicating and Harvard did the playing (November 21, 1914) when the Crimson dealt the Blue a 36 to 0 trouncing...
...Manhattan, Joseph L. Brandt and Sidney Greenberg were convicted of using the mails to defraud contributors to their "Cancer Welfare Fund." In ten months they took in $123,003, passed out only $7,349. As "principal architect of the plan," Brandt drew 3½ years in prison, Greenberg...
Invited to be guest of honor at a luncheon of the Cliff Dwellers, a Chicago men's club, Architect Frank Lloyd Wright was asked if he wanted to invite some of his old friends as fellow guests. "No," said Wright, "the last time I was there, I saw all my old friends, and they all looked feeble and tired. They made me so depressed I went to bed for a month when I got home...
Half-Empty Maps. The introduction sets forth three guiding convictions: 1) Western man was the architect of the modern world, 2) he was a most interesting, instructive and colorful individual, 3) he was a Christian whose faith served as a mighty engine of civilization. Then the history opens with a burst of color: the gold, jewel-encrusted cover of a medieval Gospel...
...nothing in the world like it"). It looked rather like a masculine version of Fleur Cowles's late, ill-starred Flair. It looked even more like the fancy and expensive ($3 a copy) trade quarterly, American Fabrics, also published by Reporter Publications. Gentry abounded in detachable inserts (an architect's plans for a Finnish steam bath, a 16-page portfolio of engravings of ducks) and three-color textile ads illustrated by swatches of materials (Shetland woolens, fine corduroys, cotton shirtings, etc.). Gentry extended the sample theme to its articles, in one of which a bag of marjoram...