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Lord Chancellor Gardiner has a job centuries older than the Prime Minister's, a title once held by two English saints (Becket, More) and Francis Bacon, a $34,000 salary that is tops in the British government, and the unique power to simultaneously help make, execute and interpret the laws of Britain. As the government's chief legal adviser, Gardiner is a top-level Cabinet officer. As head of the legal profession, he appoints judges and Queen's Counsel (senior barristers). As Speaker of the House of Lords, he perches on the symbolic Woolsack, also presides when...
...bring Philadelphians back from suburban shopping centers to the big stores and little shops in the center of town, Bacon is promoting a $200 million plan for a gigantic terminal east of City Hall on Market Street, which will unite the city's two suburban railroads in a single terminal, and also achieve one of the basic goals of city planning?the separation of wheeled traffic from pedestrian. Bacon's plan also includes widening the sidewalks of Chestnut Street, the city's other main shopping thoroughfare, and making a traffic-free mall of it, with little electric trolleys to carry...
Renewers of the city want not only to bring people back from the suburbs to shop, but back to town to live. Philadelphia is now devoting 50% of its renewal outlay to residential work not involving major demolition, and some of Bacon's most interesting labor on this level is to be found in Society Hill?so-called after the Free Society of Traders, which originally bought 20,000 acres there from William Penn, rather than the Social Register. Society Hill is studded with 18th century houses and historic landmarks, and Bacon opened up vistas around them by chopping...
Philadelphia's $593,000 yearly budget for its planning commission provides Bacon with a $20,000 salary and a staff of 65, including 14 architects, seven engineers, three economists, three experts in social science or government, a landscape architect and a mathematics expert. Appropriately enough, Bacon lives in a four-story brick row house in midtown, a 15-minute walk from his office. His outside activities are not exactly wide-ranging. During winter term he conducts an evening course (Historic Examples of Civic Design) at the University of Pennsylvania...
...necessarily take any long-distance perspective on the part of the editors to decide that there was a subject for a cover story. Choosing the city and the individual and the right time was not quite so easy, but the happy choice came to Philadelphia. Edmund Bacon and this week. The major reporting for the cover story was done by a bona fide expert in the field: Gurney Breckenfeld, former managing editor of HOUSE & HOME and co-author of The Human Side of Urban Renewal (Ives Washburn: 1960.), who recently joined the TIME staff. While Breckenfeld spent eight days casting...