Word: casson
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Highland Park, Ill.; Clinton K.L. Ching, of Dunster House and Honolulu, Hawaii; Lindsay E. Fischer of Leverett House and Broadmoor, Colo.; and Vincent R. Larson of Minot, S.D. Baum is also a member of the Student Council, the Harvard Band, and Phi Beta Kappa. Ching is on the Casson Club Executive Committee. Fischer, has participated in varsity soocer, skiing, and lacrosse. Larson is a Rhodes Scholar, a varsity debater, and past president of the Crimson Key Society...
Clinton K. L. Ching--Dunster House; Dunster House Committee; Casson Club Executive Committee; ROTC Council; Hawaii Club of New England, President; Hasty Pudding Club...
...Pall Mall were defaced with iron scaffoldings, half of Westminster Square lay awash in cold rows of unpainted platforms and stands. But as if on signal last week, the curlers and mudpack came off, and London glowed with color and excitement. The official coronation decorations, designed by Sir Hugh Casson (architect of the Festival of Britain), were conceived with two objects in mind-to be regal (for the solemn occasion), yet gay (for the youth of the new Queen). Tiny roses glowed with plastic radiance from lampposts along St. James's, huge plumed brass helmets gave swagger to others...
...primary aim of Architect Michael Rosenauer and Interior Designer Sir Hugh Casson was to combine architectural beauty with efficiency. As a result of Rosenauers rigid design economies, an impressive 86½% of the total floor space is usable office area-an unusually high percentage for London buildings and a feature especially appreciated by British authorities, in the light of their austerity program. To save space, Rosenauer put two staircases (required by fire regulations) in the same stair well like the blades of a pair of scissors...
...sculpture, interior design furniture and fittings, TIME Inc. Art Adviser Francis Brennan commissioned some of Britain's outstanding artists and craftsmen. Shortly after he had made his selections, three of them were awarded high professional honors: Designer Casson was knighted for his work in the Festival of Britain; Ben Nicholson, who painted a mural for the reception hall, won first prize in the Carnegie International Exhibition, and Geoffrey Clarke, who executed a symbolic sculpture for the reception room, was commissioned to do some of the stained-glass windows for the reconstructed Coventry Cathedral...