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As usual, some names have been dropped and others added, as a rule through marriage to people already listed...Arthur A. Houghton Jr., board chairman of
Steuben Glass, and his former wife, Mrs. Elizabeth McCall Houghton, both remarried in 1973 and their new spouses, the former Mrs. Nina Rodale
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Cain was a skilled architectural renderer. Among the many examples are drawings he made of the collegiate chapter houses of St. Anthony Hall (aka Delta Psi fraternity) for their 1947 membership directory.
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Favorite Fountains in New York City: a Guide to Artistic and Unusual Fountains in the City’s Parks
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Fred N. Severud (author) and Walker O. Cain (illustrator), "Forecasting a New Era For Concrete,"
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