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Died. Margot Asquith, 81, the Countess of Oxford and Asquith, witty widow of British Prime Minister (1908-16) Herbert H. Asquith, longtime society enfant terrible; after a brief illness; in London. Her gossipy books (More or Less about Myself, Off the Record) about famed friends and enemies never violated her premise that "reticence is dull reading." Her lifetime of audacities included writing a note in pencil to Queen Victoria, declining to stay at a dinner party despite King Edward's request, staging a fashion show at No. 10 Downing Street...
...came to Massachusetts to 'find a place for our sitting down,' he wrote to his English sponsor saying, 'Send me, pray, a Frenchman that he may lay out our city for me.' Jefferson, two centuries later, followed his example by inviting Major l'Enfant to design the city of Washington. . . . "These and many other historic instances confirm the European source of our own art of city planning. Our most striking inventions, our most useful techniques, have often had their beginnings across the seas. . . . Those magnificent parkways, for example, which reach out in all directions from...
...makes bronze available again-stood 19 ft. tall in the great room, looking across the basin toward the White House. After seven years of planning, after four years of work, the Jefferson Memorial was finished, built as the southern and last wing of the famed kite-shaped "L'Enfant plan," of which the White House is the northern wing, and the Capitol, the Washington Monument and Lincoln Memorial are the east-west line, connected by the Mall. Next week, on the 200th annivesary of Thomas Jefferson's birth, the celebrities will gather, the speeches will be read...
...hundred and fifty years ago Pierre L'Enfant. Revolutionary War veteran and city planner, laid out the only completely planned city in the U.S.: Washington. D.C. Last week well-planned Washington had become the prime U.S. example of the weaknesses of permanent city planning. With housing facilities overflowing, wide avenues glutted, its normal population (500,000) swelled to 1,000,000, war-tan-gled Washington had forgotten to celebrate the 150th anniversary of L'Enfant's plan...
...Department was somewhat taken aback to find how deeply Washington is attached to its L'Enfant-Mellon plan. Senators rumbled. The President wrote an admonishing letter. The press said: You can't do that. Someone suggested that the Department move to the 550-acre grounds of the Soldiers' Home in north Washington. It began to look as though the War Department had raised a potent ghost...