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...myriad statues and monuments, Washington has seen fit to ignore the memory of 23 U.S. Presidents.* Perhaps the most remarkable omission is that of James Madison, author and sponsor of the Bill of Rights, chief architect of the U.S. Constitution, the fourth and one of the most erudite Chief Executives in the nation's history, whose name is today most celebrated by the Manhattan avenue that has become a synonym for advertising. Last week the House voted to make amends, authorized construction of a $75 million annex to the Library of Congress, to be named the James Madison Memorial...
...RICHARD BENKEN The Lutheran Church Madison, Conn...
John Kennedy spoke of "patches of poverty"-and indeed, the poor tend to be concentrated. In Chicago the poor are the winos of skid row, the aged pensioners and beatniks of West Madison Street and the hillbillies of the "uptown area," a middle-class neighborhood only a decade ago. Virtually every city has its Negro slums: Detroit's Brewster, Chicago's West Garfield Park, Las Vegas' West Side and Los Angeles' now notorious Watts. The rural poor cluster in the picturesque Appalachians and the Ozarks, on the Louisiana-Texas coastal plain, in the southern Piedmont...
...better suited to undertaking.* But Liberace thought of himself as a prodigy, dropped his first two names in imitation of his idol, Paderewski, and within 14 years matched the Polish master in one respect: they are the only pianists in the world who have filled Manhattan's Madison Square Garden...
...experience of the Acting Senior Fellow. Only William Marbury could approach Coolidge's longevity, and although he and Coolidge comprised the Corporation's Special Committee to study the Fury Case, he seems to have followed his colleague's lead. A descendant of the plaintiff in Marbury v. Madison (1803), Marbury was a Baltimore lawyer and personal friend of Alger Hiss. In fact, one reason for his unsureness in the Furry case was a disappointment with the outcome of Hiss's trial and a belief that the convicted perjurer had lied even to his closest friends. Such a view made...