David Montgomery 55, Takoma Park, Md., Washington Post staff writerF rank Lloyd Wright was furious with my great-uncle Tommy. The mercurial architect was at work on his masterpiece SC Johnson Research Tower in Racine, Wis., and he had a problem. Thomas H. Truslow Jr., a general sales manager at Corning Glass Works, proposed a solution of flexible waterproof strips directly to Johnson executives, bypassing Wright. “It is the architect’s.” Then more green scribbled rage: “Mine.”Wright summoned Uncle Tommy to meet at the Plaza Hotel in Manhattan. Wright liked the waterproof strips.

Source: Washington Post August 18, 2016 14:03 UTC