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Dean Joseph Hudnut, of Harvard's Graduate School of Design, has a seeing eye for architectural pretense. He has paid his respects to the campuses of the large Eastern colleges in a little pamphlet called The Gothick Universitie; he has likened Washington's unfinished Jefferson Memorial to "an egg on a pantry shelf in the midst of a geometric Sahara." Last week Dean Hudnut took a look at the National Gallery. Wrote he (in an article in the Magazine...
Back in the days of Washington and Jefferson the career of Government naturally attracted practically all the most capable and efficient men in the community. But came the era of big industry, and the attraction of money became more powerful than that of fame. Millionaires succeeded presidents as the idols of young men. Now the chances for big money seem to be gone, and with them the attraction of business as a career...
There were daffy doings last week in an old colonial garden in Virginia. The garden belonged to Hampton Manor, 486-acre estate near Bowling Green, Va. The estate, with a brick mansion, built in 1838 by Virginia Legislator Daniel de Jarnette from plans by his friend Thomas Jefferson, is now owned by Mrs. Caresse Crosby, late of literary Paris. Her house guests were Arch-Surrealist Salvador Dali & wife. Hence the dilly-Dali...
...four gigantic stone faces. Mount Rushmore had been finished long ago, but the 14-year chippings from these granite visages made it look unfinished: under their chins the mountainside fell away in a gigantic dribble of scree. And now the figures of these four great U. S. Presidents -Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln and Theodore Roosevelt-would never be finished by their creator. For the man who had devoted nearly a quarter of his life to the task of hewing them from the mountainside, Gutzon Borglum, lay dead of a heart attack in a Chicago hospital...
...Cathedral of St. John the Divine, Borglum took a hammer and smashed them. In 1916 Borglum got his first job of mountain carving when the Atlanta Chapter of the United Daughters of the Confederacy hired him to decorate Stone Mountam with heads of Robert E. Lee, Stonewall Jackson and Jefferson Davis. Just when he had got a good start, hot-tempered Borglum got into an argument over money and politics with the Stone Mountain Memorial Association, was discharged. He demolished his models before he could be stopped...