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...third development, more than passing interest attached to the arrival at Manhattan of the famed U. S. architect, Whitney Warren, who announced that he had recently spent some hours at a luncheon, tete a tete with his friend Clémenceau. Mr. Warren declared roundly that he had never seen M. Clémenceau in better health and spirits or more fully in touch with the current situation in France. The famed whiskers may droop like the tusks of an old walrus, but between them the decisive jaw continues to snap with the fierce pugnacity of a bulldog...
...Architect Warren scoffed at the idea of Clémenceau as an enfeebled old man: "The newspapers are always trying to write obituaries of really great men before their deaths. Who has not heard rumors that Mussolini is a pale spectre of himself, burnt out by overwork? I visited him three weeks ago in Rome, and found him not at all the feeble man tottering into the grave that I had been led to expect. . . . He looks fit, mentally and physically...
...Gennadeion looks down on the Acropolis. The child towers above the parent. The new library for the American School of Classical Studies at Athens is practically completed. Designed by an American architect, the marble edifice is a true descendant of that classical school in the midst of whose ruins it stands like a spectre from the past...
Marlborough House. About Marlborough House there still stalk, allegedly, the shades of the great Duke of Marlborough, "who taught uncertain battles where to rage," and his Duchess, the madcap Sarah, the wisest fool that ever time has made." Sarah, as everyone knows, deliberately slighted the great architect Vanbrugh by employing Sir Christopher Wren to design the "House" for her. Said she, when it was finished: "It cost ?50,000*. . . not really so extravagant, because it is the strongest and best house that was ever built...
...passes that he is not called upon to act as engineer, architect, artist, interior and exterior decorator, landscape gardener, tree doctor, florist, gamekeeper, director of outdoor sports, and censor of beauty, morals and safety. "He is the man who provides 'love nests' for the birds and squirrels in Washington's numerous parks and playgrounds, shelter for the park policemen, benches for the weary as well as the lovelorn, golf links, tennis courts, and bathing beaches for the thousands of Government workers. He blazes bridle paths through the cool woods, supervises the care of the flowers and cherry...