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...Brooklyn-born son of a German woodcarver. who went to California in 1894 and later became the founder and director of the University of California's School of Architecture. A romanticist like Frank Lloyd Wright, he was the first architect to use unfinished California redwood as a decorative element in beautiful building, the first to wed his free, unconventional designs to the mountainous beauty of the California landscape. Maybeck is principally remembered for his dreamlike Palace of Fine Arts at San Francisco's Panama-Pacific Exposition...
...luncheon meeting in the Farrar room following the morning service, the Reverend George S. Cooke of Northampton condemned the clergy who "didn't see the danger" and warned the nation to prepare but were rather a leading element in obstructing the attempts...
...will presently have to cope with. The following dispatch, by one of TIME's correspondents, is an attempt to estimate England's character-her spirit, her feelings, her attitudes-in the cold wet weather of defeat in 1942's beginning. Necessarily there is a large element of individual judgment in any estimate of these very real and important intangibles...
...Author Tabouis realizes that those bad times were gay, uninhibited days when there was still an element of pour le sport in politics. "One old gentleman [Baron Christiany] made it a point at all social affairs which the President [Loubet] attended to throw rotten eggs at him" or bash in the Presidential topper with a cane. It was not long before Mme. Tabouis would see Premier Léon Blum's head bashed in by young Royalists...
...University Hall itself. This clearing house for Army and Navy press releases has professed an innocent ignorance of the sources of undergraduate distrust. It has referred part of it to an expectation of upset or vacillating students to have Mr. Casner make their decisions for them; and the element of truth there is undeniable. But this alone obviously does not explain the widespread dissatisfaction. It has begun to get around that would-be officers are almost automatically told about the Business School, the Marine Corps, and V-7; that very little is learned that cannot be found in pamphlets...