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...statue was completed, set up temporarily in Paris. France's gift was the statue itself. The base, a mass of almost solid granite designed by famed Architect Richard Morris Hunt, was to be provided by the U. S. In the winter of 1884-85 the base was less than half built and funds were completely exhausted. To the rescue came exuberant Publisher Joseph Pulitzer of the New York World. With screaming editorials, cartoons, prize contests, fancy dress balls, all the impedimenta of modern publicity, Publisher Pulitzer had the $100,000 necessary to finish Liberty's pedestal oversubscribed...
Younger than these, but equally famous, are tentative sketches of University Hall prepared in 1815 by Charles Bulfinch, the famous New England architect, and firmly rejected by the college. Bulfinch originally desired that the central building be topped with a massive gold dome; when this was turned down he was willing to compromise on a large cupola. The building, as finally constructed, had a plain roof, and is still in use today for the university offices...
...Marry With Love" is no blot on the escutcheons of Warner Baxter or Myrna Loy, for the script's the script--stretch it, pamper it, bolster it as you may. The show starts with the marriage of Baxter and Myrna Loy, he a conscientious, hard-working architect; and she apparently a conventionally affectionate young bride. As the show progressed Baxter remained true to his original type, and to this added occasional drunken sprees which involved him, rather innocently, though not deeply with a gay young thing named Kitty. Naturally this brought chastisement from his wife. But she failed to realize...
...first operation performed under either at the Massachusetts General Hospital in 1846. Nearby are collections of all types of medical instruments, ranging from the very crude ones of early days up to the highly developed ones of today. The center of the room is taken over by an architect's model of the Medical School today and the proposed building for the Dental School...
...Mary chapel is to be a memorial to Father Burton's mother, Mrs. Caspar Burton of Cincinnati, who long ago gave the land for it. The main unit of the monastery, in Architect Cram's finest medieval style, will be in memory of Father Burton's brother Caspar, who died of War wounds. With this and a cloister under construction, the whole will eventually cost $500,000. But to Boston the most interesting donor to the Cowley Fathers monastery was their late patron ess, a terrifying little woman who gave the $25,000 St. Francis House...