MAN TO WATCH HARRISON: DESIGNS N.Y. SKYLINE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000100010007-6
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 12, 1999
• Sequence Number: 7
• Publication Date: November 17, 1958
• Content Type: NSPR

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ffarrisort: Designs N. Y. ,skyline
years ago,
when he was fourteen and
looking for a 'ob, Wallace K.
Harrison was told by a Wcr-
crater, Mass., contractor:
"don't be a damn fool, son.
Go into farming."
Mr. Harrison decided to
be "?a damn fool" and con-
segt:ently became once ' of
America's foremost architects.
Instead of harvegting corn or
potatoes, hG reaped a crop
of steel, concrete and glass
which has left a lasting im-
pression on tae skyline of New
York. For among his accom-
plishrnents in the last three
decades, Mr. Harrison can
point with pride to the United
Nations' Secretariat, Rocke-
feller Center, Idlewild Airport
unc' the 1939 World's Fair
irvlon and perisphere.
And now he has taken on
t1 - task of designing "a new
American landmark," the
Lincoln Center for the. Per-
fnrrn.ng Arts on Manhattan's
West side. Not only is he
n.ctinr as co-ordinating arch-
it-t for the center, but he
i:, designing the new 3,800-
stat Metropolitan Opera
house within the project.
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Mit, HARRISON received
his education "by ab-
scorption" for he left school
a-, fourteen to work, picking
n he three R's as he went
mostly in night school.
incteen, he secured a job
junior draftsman with
\t Kcm. Mead & White by
tho boss he would work
(?,i ci?thing. Two weeks late:?
hr rccei~rd his first salar','.
$20 a week.
After serving as an
Walla,,.-e K. Harrison
In World War I, he studied-
architecture at Ecole des
Beaux Arts in Paris and other
European schools an a two-
year Rotch Traveling scholar-
ship. In 1927 Mr. Il