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...team from the Manhattan architectural firm of Pedersen & Tilney. Hoberman rejected the idea of any kind of statue, because "there is so much photographic material on F.D.R." Nor did he want another anachronism such as a modified Greek temple (the Lincoln Memorial) or an Egyptian obelisk (the Washington Monument). Instead, he proposed perpendicular tablets carrying quotations from Roosevelt. Commented Jury Chairman Pietro Belluschi: "I hate to bring up Moses and his tablets, but this is a sort of version of them...
...Hoffman turned to his Methodist pastor and asked for a prayer. "This procedure may be a bit unusual," he remarked, "but it is never out of place." A Republican, Hoffman was born in New Jersey, but spent his long career as a trial lawyer in Virginia. His major legal monument is a series of important decisions in 1957 and 1958 that led to token integration of Norfolk's public schools. With unfailing sympathetic words. Judge Hoffman ruled in case after case that Virginia's much-imitated pupil-placement system-a Governor-appointed state board with sweeping powers...
Filling the Gap. The strategic targeting plan stands as the newest monument to a reserved and dedicated man who, combining outer velvet with inner iron, has proved to be one of the ablest and most valuable officials in the Eisenhower Administration. In the five-sided Penta gon, where most questions have more than five conflicting sides, just about everybody agrees that Tom Gates has been the most successful Defense Secretary since the late James Forrestal (1947-49). Georgia's crusty Congressman Carl Vinson. chairman of the House Armed Services Committee and a frequent Pentagon critic, flatly calls Gates...
...amazing how a girl so dumb that if you say hello she's stuck for an answer can reel off a three-hour lecture on why wild mink is better." Brynner, contemplating a statue of a discus thrower: What sort of a country is dis? Puttin up a monument of a guy stealin' hubcaps...
...ticket. Completely on his own, he delivered his well-remembered nationwide TV speech in which he laid bare his personal finances and mentioned, in a plunge into bathos, that the only gift he ever had accepted was the little dog Checkers. The Checkers speech became a monument to political torn, but the oft-forgotten fact was that it brought Dick Nixon such a landslide of popular support that Ike promptly welcomed him back to the team...