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...Paris, Irish Novelist Honor Tracy's favorite smell is the musty odor of the Metro on rainy days; in Spain, she prefers the fragrance of open sewers. "A vision comes," she writes, "an enchanting still life of broken glass and pomegranate rinds with a dead rat floating in iridescent water, and beckons to me sweetly...
Conservationists in Cambridge were busy denouncing the Metro-politan District Commission's "modifications" of the plans for the Memorial Drive underpasses. The MDC in early July announced changes in its plans for the underpasses which, it declared, would save 11,500 feet of park land from destruction...
...nouveau is the interior at Maxim's, the typography of McCall's, the Ziegfeld Theater, the shopping bags of London's Elliott shoe company, the gaudy Metro exit at Paris' Place de la Bastille, the Postal Savings Bank building in Vienna, the curly white painted Italian furniture, Tiffany lamps, Gallé vases, books with spiraling Aubrey Beardsley designs, and twisted, forged-iron banisters now flooding art shops and galleries...
Porte de Clignancourt Metro station, then jumped on a train and disappeared...
Last week, in an effort to settle the whole scrap, the Metro Commission voted to pay Phillips the $975 set by Judge Eaton and accept the injunction that ordered him to remove the caboose. Phillips reluctantly agreed to go along. Looking back on the long fight, he says he would have preferred to be prosecuted in criminal court as a zoning law violator. He feels that then he might have pleaded his case before a jury that would have been more sympathetic than his neighbors...