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...jowly, side-burned bust of Martin Van Buren was discovered in storage. Treasury Secretary and Mrs. Douglas Dillon chipped in with a roomful of Empire furniture including a mahogany library table and an anonymous source lent a Samuel F. B. Morse portrait of Revolutionary War General John Stark. Back to the White House from a private home in Virginia came a tufted upholstered chair that was formerly in Lincoln's bedroom. Cached in a discarded scouring-pad carton in the White House basement were two sets of vermeil knives and serving spoons that belonged to President Monroe...
...drone of an airplane far overhead, the growl of a lumber truck on a steep grade, the small talk of tiny birds in the bushes, and the murmuring of a mountain stream. And at night: the goose-pimpling patter of rain on the canvas that wakes a child, the stark clarity of detail in the tent when lightning flashes, and the crack of thunder and its rolling echo around the lake shore...
...came after three months of hemming and hawing about his own candidacy and his choice of running mates. The mayor had been under heavy pressure from dissident camps about his ticket. Democratic reformers led by Eleanor Roosevelt and Herbert Lehman wanted Wagner to dump both City Council President Abe Stark and Controller Lawrence Gerosa as incompetent. New York's Liberal Party-a powerful third force in New York politics-also demanded that Stark and Gerosa be left off the ticket. But Wagner was under equally strong pressure from regular party leaders to keep...
...pleasing hardly anyone. Sweating profusely at a floodlit conference (where the mayor's frantic brow-mopping provided photographers with readymade man-in-agony pictures), Wagner announced his choices. He dumped Gerosa, picked able Deputy Mayor Paul R. Screvane, 46, to run as city council president, downrated Brooklyn Haberdasher Stark to controller. The move took Stark out of the line of succession should the mayor resign for a federal appointment. Cried Brooklyn Boss Joseph T. Sharkey, white-faced with anger: "I think the Jewish people in this town might feel they were trying to get rid of Abe and make...
...almost a quarter of a century, Designer T. H. (for Terence Harold) Robsjohn-Gibbings successfully designed stark, austere contemporary furniture for a number of top U.S. manufacturers. A decorator, architect, author (GoodBye, Mr. Chippendale), and longtime admirer of the durability of classic Greek forms, Gibbings grew increasingly disenchanted with the coldness and built-in "artificial obsolescence" of most modern furniture. Poking through museums and private art collections all over the U.S. and Europe, he cribbed ideas from the drawings on ancient Greek pottery and bas-reliefs. This week in Athens, a new line of classically inspired furniture based on Gibbings...