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...splinters of sky scrapers in Manhattan and elsewhere, were soon disabused. Architect Cram, apostle of the gothic, has only an academic interest in these astonishing and often beautiful towers. He disapproved of them on principle but said that he "would like to try to build one." Himself a great builder of churches, he referred to U. S. religious monuments...
...Tokuji Hayakawa, onetime railway conductor, now builder-operator of the newly opened Tokyo subway (TIME, Jan. 9), contrasted, last week, his construction methods with those used in Manhattan. Since a great part of Tokyo is not, like Manhattan founded upon a rock, no drilling whatever was necessary and the Tokyo tube was simply buried in trenches cut with ease in the soft soil...
...more necessities than the Infirmary, of more signs of progress than the growth of the medical staff from one to twelve members. He has seen the advent of rigid examination for Freshmen and all athletes, and a tendency of the University to provide the means of correction. As a builder of a vigilance that will be permanent Doctor Bailey has well-earned the gratitude of Harvard...
Died. Major General George Washington Goethals, 69, builder of the Panama Canal...
...timber magnate who moved down from Dallas 20 years ago to open banks & bond houses, build hotels, publish the Houston Chronicle, etc., etc. He looks, acts and is one of the richest men in all rich Texas?Jesse Holman Jones. In Who's Who, Mr. Jones calls himself, "builder, financier." Among nationally experienced Democrats, he has come to be known as a politician, almost as well known as that other Texan, Col. Edward Mandell House of the Wilson regime...