Word: gardened
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...century for his public stat ues - New York's equestrian Sherman, Chicago's Lincoln, Boston's Shaw and Washington's Adams Memorial. Diana was his favorite, though, and from the moment Architect Stanford White asked him to sculpt her as a fitting finial for the Garden (then under construction), she was a labor of love, his first nude, his first ideal figure. Saint-Gau dens chose an Irish girl named Nellie Fitzpatrick as his model, made a 6-foot-tall cement study, then scaled it up to an 18-foot statue. Much...
Saint-Gaudens added a flowing cloak of copper sheets, so she could act as a wind vane as well, and up she went on the Garden tower, to twirl on a swivel before the prevailing breeze. New York fell in love at first sight. She became the protectress of the cat show, the horse show, the sportsmen's show, the prizefights and circuses. Around 1905, a severe storm ripped away her cloak; from then on she was bolted securely down. She presided over William Jennings Bryan's nomination for President, saw Jack Dempsey knock out Bill Brennan...
Gone, perhaps, but not forgotten. A few weeks ago, New York's Mayor John V. Lindsay wrote to Philadelphia's Mayor James Tate asking for Diana's return to grace the new $38 million Madison Square Garden now abuilding on the site of the old Pennsylvania Station. Last week Tate replied: Never. "When no one wanted this poor little orphan girl, Philadelphia took her in, gave her a palatial home, and created a beautiful image for her." Added Tate: "Would you really have me believe that you would give Manhattan back to the Indians if they returned...
Study & Copy. To be sure, New York still has Saint-Gaudens' original concrete study in the Museum of the City of New York. Another Diana, a 9-foot bronze copy made in 1928, is owned by the Metropolitan Museum; its twin graces the Long Island garden, now public, of the late Financier John S. Phipps. But the real Diana is New York's no more...
...part. But a Mormon marriage performed in the temple "seals" a couple for "time and eternity." The reason is that Mormons view every wedding as performed in the image of the first marriage, in which Adam and Eve were wed by God be fore they were banished from the Garden of Eden and made subject to death...