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...White House had a dickens of a time finding the new painting of Cal. His official portrait hangs in the East Foyer. Charles Hopkinson painted it in 1932 for $4,000 but accepted $2,500 when a committee of Senators said that was all they could raise. Coolidge would have loved the hard bargain. In any event, that portrait could not be moved and there was not another one around. The official portrait was about all that was left of the Coolidge days, save a couple of pieces of undistinguished cherry bedroom furniture and an old Pullman menu from...
...most poignant moment in the Administration's brief history. On Tuesday afternoon, Ronald Reagan, with an ashen-faced Nancy at his side, stepped out from the foyer of the White House State Floor to the North Portico, there to issue a brief statement on the death of a "close and dear friend," whom they had welcomed to the White House just two months before. There was grief and anger in Reagan's voice as he denounced the assassination of Egypt's President Anwar Sadat as "an act of infamy, cowardly infamy." The shock and concern of official...
...because it was cheap to build. But it just might be that the American patrons of mainstream modernism were not as dumb or masochistic about their glass boxes as Wolfe thinks. What if they felt, on some instinctive level, that those cost-efficient termitaries with one marble foyer and a thousand Sheetrock cells disclosed some truth about power, authority and social organization in American corporate life, a truth which the captains of industry and business embraced? What if the glass box was the all-American self-expression that Wolfe claims is not there? His book does not broach that possibility...
...communication lines, hot water continuously pumping through their wet suits for warmth. Said Supervising Diver Steve Jennings: "This is the hardest-bad currents, high seas, a rotting ship. The Doria was a weird wreck, very unforgiving." After a week of clearing debris from the first-class foyer and purser's office, the team found two safes. The divers were able to free one, a Bank of Rome safe, with acetylene torches and hoist it on board. They also solved a question that had long haunted Gimbel: Why had the ship gone down so swiftly? Descending through the hulk, Gimbel...
...Ukraine, and hence took it on faith. One of the models was beautiful enough to build one's life around, but the two figured there was no way to talk to her without lust implications, and it was too early for crudity. Instead they sat in the foyer, and watched the mob gather outside, waiting for the doors to open. The receiving committee was already inside, and they surveyed the mob with looks of pleased smugness--they were official. At first they had looked at the Intern and the Foreign Car Driver with mistrust, but then they became chummy...