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...Embassy on Washington's 16th Street, Russian Ambassador Maxim Maximovich Litvinoff (pronounced Lit-VEEN-off) heard the seconds tick. Watching the dogwood bloom on the lawn, he could picture the Russian spring: no Russian, however far from his homeland, can forget the feathery pastels of white birch and oak, the woods alive with the calls of the zhavornok and the drozd, the heady smell of mushrooms and flowers sprouting in soil musty-damp from the winter's snow...
...Wright houses for many years. A tireless experimenter with new materials and bold forms, he invented and evolved new structural uses for everything from concrete to plywood, built houses that challenged every conventional rule of the architect's art. By 1910, his new ideas had spread from suburban Oak Park, Ill., where he lived, to Holland and Germany, where a whole school of modern architecture grew up from seeds Architect Wright had planted...
...offices of the Social Justice Publishing Co. in Royal Oak last week a few female Coughlinites puttered around in silence. Coughlin's aged parents, Thomas J. and Amelia Coughlin, listed as sole owners of Social Justice, were visiting "a relative out of the State," according to the colored maid in the $25,000 house bought for them a few years ago by their sensational...
...Oak. For all his detachment, Henry Wallace knows how to handle himself in Washington clinches. This time he had potent help from Donald Nelson and quiet, able Budget Director Harold Smith. Last week's executive order lifted Wallace above wrangling. Henceforth Jesse Jones must sign any check Wallace shoves at him. Henceforth the State Department may enter only formal protests...
...Chuck" Griflith, who went to Oak Park High, won major numerals on his Freshman hockey team, and won a minor H in his sophomore year, and a major H this season for hockey...