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...Noyes bubble house, Bauhaus builder, etc. [TIME, June 22]: many thanks for your excellent reporting of newsworthy architectural items. However, you would be doing our profession a service by classifying such stories in the Science or Business sections...
...What am I trying to express?" Empire-Builder Cecil Rhodes would exclaim to his friend, the famous writer. "Say it! Say it!" Then Rudyard Kipling would say it, "and if the phrase suited not, Rhodes would . . . work it over, chin a little down, till it satisfied him." In such a way, the great man finally wrote his will, and set up the scholarships* that he hoped would "encourage and foster . . . the union of the English-speaking people throughout the world." Last week, on the 100th anniversary of Rhodes's birth and the 50th anniversary of the scholarships' founding...
...with red tipped oars dipping almost noiselessly, for quiet miles up and down the river, past the ivied Houses, past sunbathers, and through bridgees -- almost as much of the spring scene as the river itself.The boat house, which builds its own shells, also maintains facilities for repairing them. Boat-builder "ANDY" ANDERSON is shown inspecting a damaged wherry...
Died. Homer Lenoir Ferguson,* 80, dean of American shipbuilders, president (1915-46) of the Newport News Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Co.; of a heart attack; in Warwick, Va. As boss of the nation's oldest and largest builder of merchant and naval vessels, Annapolis-trained Engineer Ferguson directed its round-the-clock construction frenzy in two world wars, built 15 of the Navy's big aircraft carriers (Hornet, Midway...
This could be accomplished, he said, through the development of three types of architects: the researcher, the builder, and the city planner. Most of what is fashionable in modern design depends of cliche, or does not achieve a pattern integrated with its surroundings, he stated. He stressed the roles of these three kinds of architects, especially the city planner, in carrying out an esthetic architectural program...