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Thus came to an end an era in American politics. Dewey had served three terms as New York's governor and was twice (1944, 1948) his party's nominee for President. But of vastly greater importance was his place as an architect of U.S. political thought. Dewey moved up in the Republican Party during its weary, negative years of exile. Through his example as New York's chief executive, he made the party stand for something positive: good government. This was his achievement, and this was his political legacy...
Last week visitors to the Farnsworth Art Museum at Rockland, Me. saw a sweeping vista of this tidy world. It had the pure newness of renderings on an architect's drawing board. Among the 53 Fransioli works were paintings of New England houses as scrupulous as portraiture. There were cityscapes of Boston and Cambridge in which the red bricks of Beacon Hill and Harvard glow with warmth, the Charles is mirrorlike and the winter sun, casting long shadows, is bright on the bare trees. His ruler-drawn interior, Vista from Within, suggests the antiseptic foyer of a brand...
...lived to see Emily happily married to young Architect Edwin Lutyens. (She is now 80 and edited the letters herself.) To read A Blessed Girl is to understand the why and wherefore of the Victorian novel, with its passion for brazen scoundrels, innocent girls and rescuing heroes. Such conflicts were not mere fiction; they were the very spice of Victorian life. Emily herself found it hard to decide whether her reaction to her tragedy was "happiness or misery," but her mother, respectable Lady Lytton, was not undecided at all. Wrote Emily: she was "bitterly disappointed that it has all come...
...Evelyn Nesbit Thaw, 69, who was plunged into scream-headline scandal (and won the dubious title of "the girl with the bee-sting lips") in 1906, when her husband, millionaire Financier Harry K. Thaw, in a jealous fit of suspicion, shot and killed the nation's No. 1 architect, Stanford White, on the nightclub roof of Manhattan's old Madison Square Garden. But the sting was gone now. "I live each day for what it brings," said Sculptress Thaw. "I'm happy. I'm at peace. And I work very hard...
...Architect Frank Lloyd Wright, ensconced in Manhattan's Plaza Hotel, began to get things rolling last week for the building of his spiral-shaped Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum (TIME, Aug. 10). Sitting in his favorite suite in his favorite hotel, where he has been coming for 35 years, Wright busily dispatched lieutenants to make arrangements for a new Manhattan office he is setting up, admired an Oriental painting of marmosets he had just bought, talked to contractors about bids on the museum, and kept up a steady, easy flow of talk...