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...Lady Godiva [TiME, Aug. 9]: hang the Coventry school authorities and all holy Ned-raising historians up with Collier's version-but leave us laymen see Landseer's "lemon...
...shaken with historical controversy: Should that old Coventryite, Lady Godiva, be shown riding her horse sidesaddle or astride? For years an 1898 painting by Artist John Collier (see cut) had been hanging in the city's council chambers. But it had lately been joined by Sir Edwin Landseer's sidesaddle version, and local school authorities were raising holy Ned. Children just should not be exposed to such a thing, they protested. Their objection: the sidesaddle was unknown in Godiva's day, 900 years ago; the children were being given an entirely erroneous impression of history...
...Union which holds the decisive balance. How feverish the crowds in Times Square grow as the slow returns pour in! "Seven districts in Hammersmith give Wallace a plurality of 54," with James A. Garfield and Aaron Burr trailing badly. Then the grand finale in Trafalgar Square, with Landseer's lions magically changed to eagles at the touch of Henry's wand, and all the fountains playing pure Coca-Cola. What a revenge...
Died. Sir Edwin Landseer Lutyens, 74, famed British architect, head of the Royal Academy's committee for London's reconstruction; in London. Round-faced, white-mustached Lutyens, key designer of the Raj's splendiferous capital at New Delhi, was also the Protestant designer of Liverpool's Cathedral of Christ the King (Roman Catholicism's largest-to-be) and London's Whitehall Cenotaph (the Empire's preeminent World War I memorial). In 1927 he predicted a short life for Manhattan's "corroded" steel-frame skyscrapers...
Possibly the most treasured honor, the Order of Merit (only 24 holders), went to Sir Edwin Landseer Lutyens, distinguished architect (Whitehall Cenotaph), president of the Royal Academy...