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Installation of the University's World War II Memorial plaque (sketch above) will be delayed two or three months, architect Henry R. Shapley '10 disclosed yesterday, because new names have been added to the original list. The plaque was expected to be ready for dedication in the Memorial Chapel for the opening of College, but work on the actual carving of the names of Harvard's dead has not yet begun...
Charles Luckman, who has been taking things easy since his departure from Lever Bros. (TIME, Jan. 30), went back to work last week. Still young (41) and ambitious, Chuck Luckman and Los Angeles Architect William Pereira formed a 50-50 partnership. Luckman graduated (University of Illinois '31) as an architect, though he went into the soap business shortly afterward; Pereira is an old friend and college classmate. The firm, specializing in commercial and institutional structures, has $25 million in business on hand...
Towering twice as big as life were melodramatic figures of Copernicus, Paracelsus, the 16th Century alchemist-physician, and Fischer von Erlach, the Austrian baroque architect. One full-blown nude stood nearly seven yards tall in her bare feet. But with his biggest booster gone, Thorak found his reputation had already shrunk to less than life size. The public sniffed at his glibly traditional sculpture, complained that his 12-foot Paracelsus (1940), intended for the local railway plaza, was not worthy of Salzburg...
...knows anything about architecture," America's Frank Lloyd Wright, 81, told students at a London school of architecture. "For 500 years the thing has been going downhill until no one knows a good building from a bad one." Then, as he handed out the year-end prizes, Architect Wright assured the winners that their achievements meant nothing: "The judges throw out the best and the worst, and prizes as a result of competition go to the average of the average of the averages...
Died. Bessie Smith White, 88, widow of turn-of-the-century Architect-Decorator Stanford White,† most admired U.S. architect of his day; in St. James...