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Through Half-Moon Glasses. Cripps was the walking symbol as well as the architect of Britain's postwar austerity program. Prim and trim, he looked like a governess and talked like one. He was always telling Britons what they could not have. It was not Cripps's fault that meat was scarce but many Britons blamed him for that when he looked coldly through his half-moon glasses and announced that he did not consider meat "an edible substance." His very name suggested the sound of a crunching cold raw carrot, which was, in fact, one of Vegetarian...
Houghton started out by hiring Architect John M. Gates and Sculptor Sidney Waugh to work together on new designs. They cleared the shelves for a fresh start by a simple method: they got lead pipes from the factory, smashed the worst of the old glassware...
...history, Haitian voters went to the polls last week to choose a President by direct popular election (TIME, Oct. 9). By week's end, according to the first unofficial returns, Candidate Magloire had piled up an early total of 151,115 votes. His only formal opponent, an obscure architect named Fenelon J. Alphonse, polled less than...
Final selection of architect and architectural style will rest, with the center's benefactor, who will also receive a permanent suite in the building. A tentative model shows a "Georgian" building constructed around three sides of a rectangular courtyard...
...week's end, a Committee for the Preservation of Cultural Freedom was trying to get it put back up. Their grounds: the architect hadn't the authority to take the nude down, since it was a public work; since the taxpayers paid for it, they had a say in its disposal...