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Hornpipe at Six. Christopher Fry turned his first corner almost 43 years ago in Bristol. For 38 of his 42 years, he lived close to poverty. Fry's father was a poor architect named Charles Harris, who had a hankering to be a clergyman. Just as he finally began to prosper in his trade he decided to chuck it and take to lay missionary work in the Bristol slums. He took to drink besides. When he died, his widow had to take in boarders, but managed to send Christopher to a decent school. Later he assumed his mother...
...Architect for the new Business School classroom building will be selected by vice-President Reynolds and Dean David within the next two weeks...
...first job of the architect will be to select a site for the building. Among the locations under consideration are the Business School parking lot, the tennis courts behind Morgan Hall, and the lot left vacant by the recently razed temporary veterans' housing project...
...Lines In the Carpet. What he saw differed little in appearance from the House chamber that was reduced to rubble by Hitler's bombers in 1941. The new chamber, designed by Architect Sir Giles Gilbert Scott and built at a cost of ?1,750,000, still had banks of elaborately carved, green-cushioned wooden benches ranged on either side, as before, in front of ornate oak-paneled walls. Two red lines, woven into the green carpet and thoughtfully placed just over two sword lengths apart so that overenthusiastic partisans could not prick each other, once again marked the limits...
...elevator did not give Gugel much elbow room. He fitted it with a continuous mural done in deep perspective, to make the contraption look "as light and airy as possible." For subject matter he took the four seasons. "This is a very commonplace idea," he wrote the palace architect, "but I think you'll find the pictures a bit unusual...