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Frank Lloyd Wright's Christmas Tree Idea
Spring Green,
The well-known American architect, Frank Lloyd Wright, disclosed details of a pro- pored mile-high skyscraper, which would "rise like a rapier in the sky" above Chicago's lakefront,
"It would be the eighth wonder of the world," he said. "But it would be as simple as ABC."
The controversial, 87-year-old architect was interviewed at Taliesin, bis rambling, weather- beaten home on a wooded hill in the Wisconsin countryside.
Skyscraper
ONE
MILE
HIGH
Mr Wright said his skyscraper would be bullt of stainless steel and glass. Elevators would have their own individual motora powered by nuclear energy. They would rise on cogged tracks at a mile a minute. The building would be a cantilever structure with a "Taproot" foundation extending 1,000 feet The floors would extend beneath the surface. outward from a central steel and concrete core, like limbs from a tree trunk.
Thus, Mr Wright said, the building would be extremely light in weight and low in cust, for there would be no ponderous, rectangular steel skeleton.
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This ald enthed, al city, just returning to its pre-war population level, is attracting more foreign tourists tha before the war.
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Why stop at half?
his He luncherl
mile-high project after ʼn group of Chiengo men cume to him with a pro- posal to buiki a skyscraper 4 half-mile high
"Why halt mile" he asked. Why not a zuile""
He sat the challenging con- ept of a skyscraper built like a #hristmas Tree on the cunt(lever principle ben "nothing new.'
"Ia ở shot I've had in my locker for 35 years," said the father of the modern ranch house.
Actually, Mr Wright has de- In 1938, about 788,000 people (signed and supervised the con- Lved in Cologne, prosperous analruction of two cantilever-type dustrial and commercial centín, skyscrapers. One Is the 14. glominated by its
twin storey Johnson Wax ødministra- lowered cathedral.
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the city centre ory 4 £5 mites,
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The other is the 19-storey Pried Building at Bartlesville, Okla.
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The Village That Was
DUKE LIKES 'ROCK Sentenced To Death
The Duke of Kent
MUSIC
'GREAT. GREAT GREAT, GREAT!'
London.
The Duke of Kent is be- coming a Rock 'n Roll fan, a London columnist reported.
guitar
Ken Robertson in the Dally Sketch reported that he flatened to A foot. etomping, strumming rock 'n roll musician and exclaimed: "He's great, great, great, great pi
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Haise Town.
WHEN the inhabitants of Halse Town, St Ives., Cornwall came into Will Dunn's shop to buy their groceries one morning, they saw the death knell of their village written in the headlines of the newspapers on the shop counter.
The Medical Officer had 'condemned Halse Town outright, Almost without exception, he had said in his report to St Ives Town Council, the houses of Halse Town were unfit for human habitation, for apart from a few that could be made habitable for the benefit of old- age pensioners who wished to live out their lives in the village, they ought to be demolished and the people housed elsewhere.
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The Council agreeing with And so because rents have Mrs Joyce Thomes, the village these sentiments decided to dis- ceased to COVEN the cost of postwoman said " married
the cuSA problem with the maintenance one after another Bt Ives man and went to live Minister of Health.
the cattages have fallen into dis- in one of the Council hotkes there but it was too cold and repair and talten down.
windy to stay there and I was glad to get a cosy cottage back here." alte said.
The columnist said the
Duke was
Ustening to 19-year-old Tommy Btoele, a bookie's and former luxury liner cabin boy. Robertson said Steele is
Britain's answer
to America's Elvia (the pelvis) Prestley. The Duke liked Tommy's
Rock 'n Roll Robertson said, thai he scheduled two return vialls to hear the singer. itut
for he shyed away fear of getting publicity stage name and he was connected with the music called Johnny Broadribb which is creating ‘teenage rlots in London, the columnist said. — United Press.
Halse Town had a bright bo- ginning. Once it was called the İrsi garden elty of England, was built by a man who want- ed to get into Parliament and 03 recommendation of his good qualities he equipped every voll- age with a quarter of an nere of
Innd for
garden. Raise built the village to house miners who were going to work at the New Glew in mine.
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Submarine Torpedoed.
Halse Town is famed to as well,the boyhood home of Sir Honry Irving, the great Britäh uctor,
The Dawn Their Number Came
Up 41 Years Ago
Rome.
The rusted, barnacled hulk of the Italian submarine “Medusa," sunk at the
his proposed mile-high start of the first world war, rests now on ediflce, rising to an attitude four the beach at Cavallino, not far from Venice. times the height of the Empire State Building.
of
were
The Klitterlag skyscrapers
The Medius was brought up, bottom, trapping all thore with-
Fave at the in her. would taper to a rapier point as from her walory
Modugno, Carrigila end of August just 41 years and and three other crewman rose Into the clouds, he said,
on Austrian thrown into the sea, Twy moths after The Laso the building,
live The
survivors Were mesosuring 400 by 500 feet, torpedo sent her to the bottom
eventually kite lak with all but five of her crew.
picked up by the INT
were 244 for would be shaped like ATI Mater
The submarine has lain these same
Fub- Austro-Hungarian foreign tourists compared
relatively stuallow marine which had torpedoed the 171 th In 1907
nul until Medusa
the sur- On board,
3.15
in yours
wolers,
but it
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than it was, with an average of ing would be a thick, taperizetni. A Trieste salvaging corn-indicating precisely
given to raising It for strap
Of his taproot foundation con-
14 Skeletons
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It's the strongest shape nature," Mr Wright said. The city is still more exowdeng The central core of the build ethtly that serious thought was rivers learned to their dismay that the enemy had information all detalia four people in each dwell-pole of special concrete rU- Alberto Lizarraga, aged 24, ing compared with three
inforced by steel under tension, opemtion and dragged the hulk, tons in the Adriatic and Italian
pany successfully completed the about Italian defence fortifies bit the thunb of his sweetheart; 1930, but in other Ways 1 $15 clean off her right hand during overtaken pre-war standards.
cept, Mr Wright said he got the rown over with ocean flors, to submarine movements, including "leve's 1. སྙུང»heyt; she said
iden from a study of nature, the the beach only six miles away. even the departure hour of the There are about 03,000 nietor
Medusa on ile two-day mission, source of many of his ideas in
and its expected time of return free-for-all started when Lizar-vehicles (43,600 in 1939) and 77
"organic" architecture. (50); Cologne's
The skeletons of the 14 men to base. huge ruga drew a knife en her and cinemas
have been
who went down with the alip
They Createned her life She retall-fair exhibition balls
had been stalled and were found at the posts where successfully antnrshed by the nted by disarming him with a nearly doubled in size, covering
they had been statkued on the U-Eat almost judo-ke
within sighting Mellan aren of 06,000 square metres trick Chian
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the fateful
tragedy distance of their bege. "We took a lesson from treea around here that had occurred.
The loss of the ship was
A Photograph withstood tornadoes," he said.
painful one to the Italian navy; "They had strong,
Ex-Liculent Modugno, now deep tap-
more than that, it was the news 02, still keeps, with pride, a roots."
The taproot
would be
senmtion of its day and cewa photograph of the rear section of tho nether extension of the central per treadlines spoke of tittle on Austrian torpedo found on
a point at A
else for days thereafter. core, tepering to depth roughly п Birth of the building's height.
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Bold and high
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the seabed at the scene of the
At 0.18 a.m. on June 10, 1916, einking of the Modusa, and a the Mexiuga, newly-built pride signed photograph of an Itailans of the Italian Adriatle fleet was here Poolo Thoon do Revel, cruising in what her commander Duke of the Bea, with a dedica- considereti "safe" waters only 20 thes
Prolo "To
Modugno, ntiles from Venice.
glorious survivor of the Medusa. On board besides skipper with affection and esteem."- over Adteeandro Vitluri and his first United Press.
Surrounding the buse would be parking terraco circling building Uke the base of candlestick.
"It's a beautiful thing,” Mr Wright as he leaned
said
the drawing. and no sceptic mate, Lieutenant Glovanbattista Cerniglia, were 17 members of uld agree with that,
the crew.
could
we're going concentrate to mankind in skyscrapers, let's not build tai pens, boxes or bird coges, sald Me Weight, long critic of the modern skyscraper und the way of life it symboliscs. "Let's dignify man and build bold If we're going to bulld upward, lot's bulld high-high and beautiful."-United Press.
COULDN'T GO TO PRISON
Bulawayo.
A Bulawayo magistrate, Mr G. Lloyd Roberts, told a man he could not go to prison as an alternative to paying a fine for speeding...
Thomas Henry
The Medusa hand surfaced at about six e.m., in order to re páir crie of the engless of the vessel, which was navigating with difeully under water.
Torpedo's Wake
Gold Cup Found In Turnip Field
Bonk,
"The' submineine had been on # fruitless two-day mission to the
An archaeologist believes Istrian coastal tres, near Trieste, to watch der enany shipping of
that a solid gold cup found the Austro-Hungarian Empire, on a farm near here is one |with whom Italy was at war.-
of the carllest known signa Five
of the crew, including of the spread of Greek Lt. Carniglia
culture and L, Paolo
to North
ucat Modugno,
Becond
were on dock,
electrician They had waved farewell to
an Hallan coort guard cutter,
which
had speeded quickly out of sight.-- Almost almmultaneously,.
tho five men saw with fantor the white wake of a torpedo speed- ng directly at their vessel.
Modugno, last remaining sur- McCulloch vivor of the sea tragedy, who pleaded guilty id travelling at recently attended spectal 41 miles an hour through a 30 memorial services for the other miles an hour limit area.
| crew members, recalled that When told the would be fined imbone shouted Torpesio!" and £4 he asked for an alternativa. the Mecamac time to wolve Instead of paying: "I should liked few agroes, bsa desperate to go inside for four dr Ave | 40mt:to -out of the way, of
| the torpatio, Ma "I'm afraid we cannot elve But in vain, A. mocnent fatal, you that opportunity at the tax- thé, fortado mugiwirate China-Mail Special.") indige plunge
inch
cup,
thought
to be more than 3,060 years old, was found by a farmer digging in d turnip feld at Fritzdorf.
Dr
d ̈Bonn
2. von Usiate com
archaeologist,
pared the cup's design with.
a similar one
found in which
War
to be about 3,400, years old. He says that they both habe
similarities
in design,
Goods brought by travel- Ung merchants froth the Mediterranean could have, served as modela to local goldsmiths of -– abouš– 1400
A Bit More
The people, old and young, have a tremendous affection for the village and don't want leave It.
Mr James Ellis, 78, lives there with his wife June, 50. village's oldest inhabitant.
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Most of the cottages house two to four people. But in one two-bedroomed uffair is a family
the wife the of nine and
pecting another chlid
Halse Town, which has "I couldn't pay the rest of houses, has two shops, a pub, a Connell house on my pension." chapel and a school, In this said My Ellis. "I would rather school. which now has 38 Henry Irving learned
He lived there with his uncle pay a bit more to live here if children.
the cottage could from the age of mix until ware 13.
This was before he took
A Good Place
he
up,"
his
then
Then Holse Town was a good place to live in. The collage walls three feel thick were built out of sold granite rocks pull- ed out of the rough mukurland neighbourhood and for 150 years they kept out the wind and the weather.
Those were the days when a 1 week ront of four stillings was a tidy sum which enabled in landlord to keep a house in repair and make a little profi for himself. Nowadays it is very different.
"Look et that house," enká Mirs Ada Wedge, who with Mr L. Cates, owns half the village, The tenantr pay 1/3 WOLK and the buose has just had to have a new roof that cost £100. You can work out for yourself how long it will take to get the money back."
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be patched his letters. It is still it with oll
lamps,-United Press.
“Spotter'
Boy Dies
In Leap From Non-Stop Train
Morecambe.
about
train-
Nine-year-old lan Waterhouse was mad spotting. But his hobby killed him last week.
There were not enongli trattia for really keen spotter In Lichfield at Bare Lane, the station nearest lab's home Btreet, Morecambe, so he decided to try Lancaster Station, two miles away.
lle boarded what he thought was a Lancaster tralt only to discover after it started that it was a non-stop to Preston.
As the train roared through Lancaster he throw open the carriage door. A porter shouted: "Get back." But Ian jumped.
They plcked him up off the platform and rushed him to hospital.
Perfect
A few minutes later Ian tied,
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