Word: bullfinches
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Twenty-three Belmont birds were billed to sing in Manhattan's Rockefeller Center last week, and, according to advance notice, they would prove their skill with solos, quartets, sextets, choruses. The bullfinch, first on the program, was obviously stagestruck. Trainer Belmont waved his head until his Windsor tie trembled. The finch careened too, but his tongue stayed tied. If the canaries were disappointing in song, they at least knew when to start and stop. They trilled a few chords, gave a slight suggestion of harmony...
...Capitol rotunda. There one hot August day in 1841 Congress in its silk hats assembled for the unveiling. The Navy Band played martial airs. Down came the curtains, and there sat George Washington naked to the waist (see cut). Current opinion of the statue was best expressed by Charles Bullfinch, architect of the Boston State House...
...proposal for a new infirmary has been in the air for some time, and at present waits upon some gift for the purpose. University officials, it is understood, regard this as the most essential part of any further development of the Harvard building program. Several years ago, Coolidge, Shepley, Bullfinch and Abbott, University architects, submitted a drawing of a proposed addition to the present buildings...
...statement from President Conant late-yesterday indicated that he and Charles A. Coolidge '81, of the Coolidge, Shepley, Bullfinch and Abbott firm, were unable to come to an agreement on the placing of the James A. Shannon memorial shaft on Soldiers Field. Coolidge, whose firm designed the stone, is understood to favor a position next to the Haughton Memorial, where attempts at setting up a preliminary foundation were frustrated Monday by Dennis Enright, superintendent of the Field...
Charles A. Coolidge '81, senior member of Coolidge, Shepley, Bullfinch, and Abbott, designers of the new James A. Shannon memorial, will confer with President Conant today on the question of a position of the new monument to the man who trained Harvard Reserve Officers during the war. Due to the pressure of University business the President was unable to meet the architect yesterday as was originally planned, but it is understood that no further developments have arisen in regard to the placing of the stone. Although further announcements in connection with the position of the memorial were not forthcoming from...