Notes:
Notes:
Paul R. Williams participated in a symposium held at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in 1953, on "relationship between American industry and art, and the influence of mechanization on cultural values in the United States...." Williams, along with Henry Dreyfuss, industrial designer, Arthur A. Houghton, Jr., President of Steuben Glass, Incorporated, Charles E. Odegaard, Dean of the College of Literature, Science and Arts, University of MI, and Francis Henry Taylor, Director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art; according to the article: "Mr Williams predicted that excesses in modern architecture would adjust themselves and evolve as an American style, 'a true expression of our standard of living.'"