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...Jefferson Memorial Commission that he would be an ideal architect for this too. Architect Pope's design for the $9,000,000 Mellon Gallery appeared in the newspapers last January. It showed a strong resemblance to the Pantheon at Rome, plus two long, windowless wings ending in Ionic porticos. Modernists winced, but most citizens felt that with his own money Mr. Mellon had the right to build any kind of building he chose. Few weeks later, plans for the Jefferson Memorial were disclosed, and the storm broke...
...rest of the world meanwhile received news pictures of a stately private palace, with immense Ionic columns and heroic figures on the roof (see cut) in which Mrs. Simpson is to live on her return to London, according to both Associated Press and United Press which announced "she will move in early in Octo...
Died. Arthur Amos Noyes, 69, chemist of California Institute of Technology, developer of the ionic theory, onetime (1927) President of the American Association for the Advancement of Science; of pneumonia; in Pasadena, Calif...
Still anxious to please Mrs. Taft, Architect Gilbert designed a courtroom that to the casual visitor is one of the most impressive chambers in the U. S. A row of Ionic columns surrounds it. Bronze and steel grilles shut off the wing corridors. A handsome sculptured frieze surrounds the walls. The bench itself is a chaste and dignified bar of polished mahogany...
...rear of the waiting room between four sturdy Ionic columns President Roosevelt found his second line of defense, smiling Pat McKenna who has worked about the White House for 31 years. His job is to switch visitors to their proper destinations: some out of the White House altogether to the departments, others to see burly Assistant Secretary Stephen T. Early who handles the Press; still others to the reception room for delegations of little wigs calling on the President; and a chosen few, who are destined to see the President personally and privately, into the office of Assistant Secretary Marvin...