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...rotunda. There one hot August day in 1841 Congress in its silk hats assembled for the unveiling. The Navy Band played martial airs. Down came the curtains, and there sat George Washington naked to the waist (see cut). Current opinion of the statue was best expressed by Charles Bullfinch, architect of the Boston State House...
...firm hand. It may expel any boy for cause, may even recommend the dismissal of a master. Popular in the Midwest, Lawrenceville sends most of its graduates to nearby Princeton. Some Lawrence-villians: onetime U. S. Attorney-General William D. Mitchell, onetime Ambassador to Japan Roland S. Morris, Architect William A. Delano, Art Critic Homer Saint-Gaudens, Author Richard Halliburton, and the sons of Charles Gates Dawes, Mark Sullivan, Arthur Brisbane, William Randolph Hearst...
...Architect Eliel Saarinen invited Sculptor Milles to teach and work at the Cranbrook Academy of Art in pleasant, rolling Bloomfield Hills, near Detroit. There Carl Milles created his huge Orpheus fountain which many of his admirers consider the greatest of his great work.* Milles modeled an Orpheus descending from Heaven, his lyre resting on his left shoulder, his right hand plucking its invisible strings. Directly beneath Orpheus a stylized Cerberus is about to doze off into careless sleep. Around the rim of the fountain nude figures are arrested in various postures by the strains of Orpheus' music. A very...
Died. Valerian ("Val") O'Farrell, 58, private detective; of apoplexy; in Manhattan. He worked on such famed Manhattan cases as the shooting of Architect Stanford White by Harry K. Thaw, was counsel for Police Lieutenant Charles Becker who was electrocuted for the murder of Gambler Herman Rosenthal. His last job: investigator for Mrs. Reginald Claypoole Vanderbilt who is suing in a Manhattan Supreme Court for return of her daughter, Gloria...
December 3: Henry Wright. "Site Planning for Low-cost Housing." Mr. Wright is an architect and town planner. Was concerned with the development of Radburn, N. J., the new town built by the New York City Housing Corporation as a model town for the automobile age, and with the development of the Buhl Foundation housing project in Pittsburgh...