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Proposals to purchase a different site and hire an architect and builder hinge on Prince Sadruddin's "ability to come through" with his pledge, the Islamic Society president declared...
...doctor at all. She knew that was what she wanted to be from age twelve, when she saw a fellow worshiper convulsed by an epileptic seizure in a Newton, Mass, church. But that was in 1896, when women doctors were still frowned upon. Sara's carriage-builder father told her to forget the idea. After breezing through Radcliffe in three years, she pursued her second love, philology, took a Ph.D. at the University of Munich. There, too, she met and married Lawyer Sebastian Jordan, had her only child, Mary Stuart Jordan...
...next spring the HDC celebrated the occasion of its 100th major production by impressively staging Hamlet uncut. But, largely owing to an excessive costume budget, the show left the Club about $3000 in debt. Last fall's fine production of Ibsen's The Master Builder made a large profit, however, and the HDC can enjoy the novelty of beginning this academic year in the black...
High Return. Accepting the challenge, young (41) Detroit Builder Herbert S. Greenwald and famed German-born Architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe turned out a design that won architects' praise, bank loans, FHA mortgage guarantees. As fast as they complete one building unit, they pay the city an average of $125,000 for the land. The city then buys more slum land for urban renewal. Not only merchants will profit from the redevelopment; city real-estate tax collections from the area will jump...
...Europe," builder Dirk Flentrop explained to an admiring host, "we don't take customers to see our work. We take them to an organ built two hundred years ago. 'See, it still works!' we say. The old way is the best way .... Logic, not electricity...