Word: architects
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Unable to hit on a permanent occupation, Boltz made a quick comeback by marrying Hazel Huckel, daughter of a prosperous Germantown architect who soon died, leaving his daughter $100,000. With his wife's money, Boltz went back to school-this time to study law at the University of Pennsylvania. He lived in a big house in the old part of town on the Main Line, had a law practice of sinecures tossed his way by friendly bankers and fellow Academy and Penn men. He founded the Juristic Society, an exclusive little legal and social group. Religious, he became...
...Others: Frank R. Fageol, president of Twin Coach Co., Crooner Morton Downey, Nassau Real Estate Man Harold Christie, Manhattan Architect John Sloan, Treasurer of the Banco Fiduciario de Mexico John R. O'Connor, Engineer Gustavo L. Trevino of Mexico City, President William O'Neil of General Tire & Rubber...
...Barbara, a beauteous Middle East virgin of the Third Century, was kept in a tower by her stern, heathen father, one Dioscorus. Be fore leaving on a journey, he ordered a bath house for her, with two windows. In his absence, she got the architect to make it three windows. When her father returned, she confessed the three windows were for the Trinity: she had become a Christian. Dioscorus had her tortured, sentenced to die, himself beheaded her. On his way home from court he was struck by lightning, burned to death. Thereafter people, especially gunners and miners, called...
...when it is built, Architect Wright's church (see cut} will indeed be a landmark in ecclesiastical design. An integral part of its angular, efficient structure is a triple-decker parking space for the congregation's cars. "It is immoral and unethical to build a structure without providing for the traffic it will attract," Wright told the church board. "You don't want an immoral church, do you?" They did not. Though the building department dislikes its thin walls and invisible heating, it will be the first church in the U. S. to be fully...
...statues, never conceded him a top ranking among Swedish artists. It was not until 1926, when curious Londoners gathered together a large Milles exhibition at the Tate Gallery, that Carl Milles became known to the outside world as Sweden's No. 1 sculptor. Following year Chicago's Architects Holabird & Root brought him to the U. S. to do a fountain for their Michigan Square Building in Chicago. Then Detroit's Philanthropist George Booth, who was trying to found an ideal art colony at nearby Cranbrook, invited Milles to teach sculpture there. Since then Milles has lived...