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...Congress' Commission for the Extension of the Capitol (remodel it). Current status: inactive, with Capitol Architect J. George Stewart authorized to begin alterations, but no contracts let. ¶ Walnut Wood, the n 2-year-old Gothic Revival mansion in Bridgeport, Conn. (TIME, Oct. 21), designed by igth century Architect Alexander Jackson Davis. It became a hot political issue in last year's mayoralty race, apparently won a stay of execution when Democratic candidate Samuel J. Tedesco won on a save-the-mansion ticket, was doomed again by Winner Tedesco when backers failed to raise...
...tourists are snobs of sorts, chiefly two: newness snobs and oldness snobs. Two well-traveled igth century U.S. writing men, Mark Twain and Henry James, stand like archsentinels at these two poles. Twain, the apostle of modernity, prized Italian railroads "more than Italy's hundred galleries of priceless art treasures." Antiquarian Henry James found the restoration of Venice's St. Mark's "crude" and "monstrous," even though the basilica might otherwise have crumbled about the pigeons in the Piazza San Marco.*This conflict adds a fillip to two thoroughly engaging travel books that should please the chairborne...
...Pabst Brewing Co. has sponsored so many TV boxing matches that its name has practically become synonymous with fighting. Last week Pabst reluctantly sponsored one more fight-the first proxy fight in its 94-year history. The ring was a igth-floor hall in Chicago's Merchandise Mart. In one corner was short, pudgy Pabst President and Chairman Harris Perlstein, wearing grey suit, tan shoes and grey tie. In the other, the challengers: Robert and David Pabst, the grandsons of the Pabst founder, Fred Pabst, and Otto and Carl Spaeth, son and grandson respectively of the founder of Premier...
...Bonnets Off!" Since British landscape painting did not reach its peak until the igth century (with Turner and Constable), it is by its portraiture that 18th century British painting stands or falls. Sir Henry Raeburn (TIME, May 28, 1956), Scotland's greatest painter (he rated the cry of "Bonnets off!" from Highland chiefs), was largely self-taught. His portrait of the two older Ferguson boys, The Archers, was painted when Raeburn was only 31, but in its bold composition device and dramatic lighting it ranks with the best of his work. Allan Ramsay was another Scottish painter, whose paintings...
Duels at Dawn. In Author Dinesen's stories-recalling E.T.A. Hoffmann and the famed Tales of Hoffmann - Judas Iscariot can be met jingling his silver in a igth century Neapolitan tenement; drunken officers duel at dawn and an artist dies nobly before a firing squad; a king and a poet argue the night through while a bored prostitute awaits their attention. The intricate plots are played out against lovingly evoked backgrounds -fur-blanketed sleds race over the midnight snow of Copenhagen; the golden sun of Italy flashes from white villa to blue...