Word: fairmount
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Japanese garden design is growing. The 1954 exhibition of a Japanese house and garden at Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art still holds the record as the museum's most heavily attended architectural show. Last week the same display was being reconstructed in Philadelphia's Fairmount Park. Books on Japanese gardens (most recent: Gardens of Japan by the late Tetsuro Yoshida, famed Japanese architect) have become a must for the modern architect's library. After 14 centuries the art form started by that legendary nobleman is gaining new and important ground in the West...
...young recruits maneuvering about Fairmount Park in Philadelphia one day during World War I, the drill seemed strictly routine. But suddenly their first lieutenant began giving some very non-routine orders. Before they knew what was up, he had marched them across the green and straight into the art museum. There he proceeded to give them a learned lecture on the museum's paintings. "I thought it would do them good," the lieutenant explained latef. "And besides, they were my first captive audience...
...counties were asked, by phone and wire, to add their signatures. An impressive array of leaders signed. Before breakfast, on Carmine De Sapio's second day in San Francisco, agitated National Committeewoman Clara Shirpser, who still likes Kefauver, bustled into De Sapio's suite at the Fairmount Hotel to break the bad news: Pat Brown and other top party leaders were holding a press conference down at the Palace Hotel to come out publicly for Stevenson...
...Epstein. They had been cast in secrecy in a London foundry so that Philadelphians would get first look at the newest adornment to their city: a group of five bronze figures, representing "Social Consciousness," to stand as a part of the Ellen Phillips Samuel Memorial in Philadelphia's Fairmount Park...
...wasn't a bad upbringing that sweetened Happy's temper. Although his parents were immigrants from Central Africa, Happy himself was born in the exclusive Fairmount Park district of Philadelphia on July 7, 1918. He came to Boston on a wave of hippo enthusiasm led by the Post, which collected subscriptions for him. On June 24, 1922 he arrived at Franklin Park, was dubbed "Happy" by Mrs. James Curley and then ceremoniously installed in what is now the seal tank of the Zoo. Since that triumphant day, though, his path trailed steadily downward. When he first came, photographers from...