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This methodical catering to constituencies was going on as well at Mondale's home, in a suburb of St. Paul. The former Veep began his formal search for a running mate by interviewing a black, a Southerner and a woman: Los Angeles Mayor Tom Bradley, followed by Senator Lloyd Bentsen of Texas and San Francisco Mayor Dianne Feinstein. Although most observers said his selection was unlikely, Mayor Bradley, the son of a sharecropper, touched reporters by reminding them how remarkable it was that a presidential nominee would even consider a black running mate. A female running mate (more probably...
...took 31 years, but Frank Lloyd Wright's wish has finally come true. In 1953 the master designed a small, practical house that was erected as part of a huge retrospective of Wright's work on the site of the present Guggenheim Museum in New York City. When the show ended the house was dismantled, and Wright expressed the hope that it could be sold at auction to someone who would "permanently reestablish...
...offered in a benefit auction for Channel 13, New York City's public television station. The buyer: Tom Monaghan, 47, ebullient owner of the Detroit Tigers, head of the 1,450-store Domino's Pizza empire and, by his own account, the world's leading Frank Lloyd Wright fanatic since he was twelve years old. He beat out prospective purchasers from across the U.S. and the Philippines with...
Monaghan intends to rebuild the house as part of a Frank Lloyd Wright museum at Domino's Pizza new world headquarters on 300 semirural acres near Ann Arbor, Mich. He will be assisted by Architect-Builder David Henken, 68, a former Wright student who was in charge of putting up the house originally. Henken saved the fragments when earlier efforts to sell the house failed. He estimates that the reconstruction will cost...
...Lloyd George and Winston Churchill in England and Clemenceau and Poincaré in France had been regular contributors and Mussolini soon became one. Our New York office suggested getting, since we could not have Hitler, who had turned us down, the number-two Nazi. This had led me to call Göring...