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...California architects are mostly as young as their ideas. Oldest of them, and acknowledged as leader of the group, is 50-year-old, Viennese-born Richard Neutra, a former lecturer at Germany's famed Bauhaus, who went to Los Angeles 16 years ago to build houses in the stark international style, but whose ideas have since thawed out in the California sunshine. The others represented in San Francisco's exhibition were nearly all in their 30s or early 40s; Harwell Hamilton Harris, who used to be a sculptor, has been building houses for only seven years; his paper...
...Cockney's street barrows were bright with yellow jonquils. In Soho Square the hedges turned from sooty brown to impetuous green. The stark winter skeletons of the trees in Hyde Park were smudged by swollen buds; purple crocuses pushed up in the rain. It was spring in London...
...Blast Came. When the hurricane struck a few days later, the men used their shirts and trousers to bail out the mountainous combers breaking over the raft. One wave flipped the raft completely over. Then the men lost everything, including their clothes. Exhausted, when the storm subsided, they were stark naked. When the sun came out again, their only shelter was a tiny piece of fabric ripped off the oar pocket. On the 33rd day the raft capsized once more. "For the first time," Dixon said, "I was ready to give up." His nerves were so frayed that he flew...
When Admiral Stark, who ranked King by earlier appointment as a full Admiral, had charge of long-range planning, most young "war-hawk" naval officers, especially aviators, were sure Stark was not their man. Flying men called him a "battleship Admiral," had bitter words to say about the need for offensive spirit where Navy plans were made. "Betty" Stark also sat as chief of the Army-Navy Joint Board (of strategy), and some Army men were not too happy about that...
...Betty" Stark will headquarter in London where he will work with the British Admiralty. He will relieve studious, crag-faced Vice Admiral Robert Lee Ghormley, who is headed for a sea command, probably an important...