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...build and stock an art museum. His first will, drawn in 1936, had left the money to Duke University; if Duke didn't want it, the money was to go to the University of North Carolina. Third choice: Rollins. Duke invited Ackland down for a visit, set an architect to drawing plans. Obviously pleased, Ackland drew up a second will, which made no mention of North Carolina, left a few token legacies to relatives and Rollins. It bequeathed to Duke not only about $1,250,000 for the art museum but the mortal remains of William Ackland...
...White House was due for its first remodeling since President Coolidge fire-proofed it in 1927. The architect, Lorenzo S. Winslow, unrolled his drawing of a new, L-shaped addition designed to flow so subtly from the West Wing that it would leave the mansion's historic Georgian lines practically undisturbed...
...returned doctors to help their patients find them. Most of the addresses were homes. Dr. John J. Dwyer 1) found his old apartment house no longer available for doctors' offices; 2) learned that a former medical building was now full of lawyers and optometrists; 3) made an architect laugh when he suggested remodeling a store; 4) made a contractor laugh when he suggested buying and fixing up a building for doctors' offices; 5) wound up in a dentist's tiny storeroom...
...worked under calcium lights at night to have it open before the rival Grand Pacific Hotel. When Palmer lost, he grimly built a board-and-shingled shack in the lobby of his $2,500,000 hotel, labeled it: "This is what the Grand Pacific is made of." In time, Architect Frank Lloyd Wright ridiculed the gingerbready Palmer House as "an ugly old man whose wrinkles were all in the wrong place...
Conservatism, says Orton, may be the guardian of the community. "Liberalism is the architect of the community." "Where in this dies irae," he asks, "can the liberal find firm ground?" His answer: in the recovery of that religious spirit, which was liberalism's heritage from the Christian tradition, until igth-and 20th-century rationalism and materialism destroyed...