Indian artist Rabindranath Tagore dies at 80 in India
London press reports that Sir Rabindranath Tagore the Indian poet painter aged 80 died in Bengal presumably at Santiniketan. Born in Calcutta he won the Nobel Prize in literature and founded Visva Bharati. He sought to abolish class and religious distinctions and supported rural reconstruction.
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Changes in American building design due to war impact
Rochester report quotes T. Alfred Flemming of the National Board of Life Underwriters on radical shifts in American architecture. He cites air bombing vulnerability in vertical shafts and heat fire risks and urges lessons from London bombings for safer designs. The piece also notes 1941 U.S. auto sales across 2,105,955 passenger cars and 379,105 commercial vehicles.
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