MAVERICKS…Robert D. Kohn(seated in light-colored suit) was president of AIA when the association held their convention in San Antonio in 1931. Seated at left isDr. Aureliano Urrutia, a prominent San Antonio physician who established the famed Miraflores gardens (mostly gone, sadly) in that ci...
GEE WHIZ…Henry Fordcalled on Teague to design an exhibit hall like no other for the 1934 re-opening of the Chicago World’s Fair. The exhibit featured an automobile cut lengthwise, and explained how various materials were extracted to create the final product. Teague helped usher in the era...
After graduating nearthe top of his class, Pynchon declined a teaching fellowship but immediately applied for a Ford Foundation grant to write opera librettos. Perhaps it’s the sheer hubris of the application, which didn’t even propose a specific project, that led him, decades later, to supp...