Word: fountains
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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They cleaned the cans off the Heinz sample counter, fell-or jumped-into Fountain Lake, leaped on the revolving platform in the Glass Center patio for a merry-go-round, scrambled up the rigging of the clipper ship Yankee, exchanged black eyes, rushed across flower beds, awed barkers, frightened monkeys in Jungleland, slid down a spiral staircase in the Street of Tomorrow, wrote their names on every virgin wall, on the base of the Perisphere, and George Washington's feet...
...Aloe Plaza, outside St. Louis' Union Station, a crane last week deposited 19 excelsior-padded, jute-swathed statues on the pavement of a waterless fountain. The bulky packages looked like mummies but were the livelier fragments of a long controversy (TIME, Aug. 9, 1937; June 6, 1938) over nude statues in general, these in particular. They were the figures for famed Swedish Sculptor Carl Milles' Wedding of the Mississippi and the Missouri-known locally as Wedding in a Nudist Colony...
...last week Wage-Hour Administrator Elmer Frank Andrews removed his bronze bust of Franklin Roosevelt, his handsome fountain-pen set, other personal belongings from Room 5144 in Washington's Department of Labor Building. Just eight days short of a year since Federal wage-hour regulation began, gloomy, google-eyed Elmer Andrews had resigned by request. His letter of resignation was curtly addressed to "Mr. President." Franklin Roosevelt replied to "Dear Elmer...
When the British wanted to honor the seventh Earl of Shaftesbury, famed Victorian philanthropist, they did it with a pun. His memorial fountain in London's bustling Piccadilly Circus is topped by an aluminum winged archer shooting an arrow downward ("burying a shaft"). Popularly, the statue is known as the god of love, Eros. Tradition has it that, while Eros stands in Piccadilly, no Londoner can be arrested for kissing a girl. Last week, if any Londoner felt like kissing in public, he had to watch his step; for Eros was removed-for the duration of World...
Manhattan's art season is to U. S. art what the Broadway season is to the U. S. theatre. It started off with a mild pop last week when the renovated Whitney Museum, after a four-month delay, threw open its doors at last, revealing a fountain filled with goldfish in the lobby, four new galleries filled mostly with familiar U. S. moderns from the Museum's permanent collection...