Word: monumental
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...CRIMSON campaign has been officially named "American Students for Raising the Monitor." It seeks to rally students and other patriotic citizens to the cause of preserving the Ironclad as a National monument. A public statement in the form of a poem (printed above) has been composed by leaders of the campaign as the opening salvo...
...dominated the sculpture section. A technical sergeant in the Mediterranean theater during the war, Artis came home to study with Ivan Mestrovic, the expatriate Yugoslav sculptor (TIME, Aug. 30, 1948) at Syracuse University. Mestrovic,' who knows as well as any man living how to make statues look like monuments instead of stone dummies, imparted some of his secret to Artis. The Quiet One (inspired by a documentary movie of the same name about childhood maladjustment in Harlem) is a quiet, beautifully compact monument to a Negro boy who sits withdrawn, miserable and taut with life...
...London court announced that George Bernard Shaw had left a gross estate worth $1,028,254.22. The playwright's will made small bequests to servants, friends and relatives; cleared the way at last to publishing his "intellectual love" letters to Mrs. Patrick Campbell; forbade any monument to him which contained "a cross or other instrument of torture or blood sacrifice"; directed that the bulk of the estate be used to promote his "simplified" alphabet...
South Boston is host to the annual affair because a monument will be dedicated there in honor of the day the British left Boston and the Irish took over...
...shifty trail. The Sergeant's story had thrown off everybody but the Berkeley Street sources, and they had tripped him up. As one police reporter explained it all when the first calls went through to Los Angeles: "No cop comes to Boston to look at the Bunker Hill monument...