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...second: "I am making a living." But the third, rising to his full height, replied: "Sir, I am building a temple." The lesson is simple: to Earl Warren the law is a temple and the Supreme Court a builder. And by last week the blueprints were ready, the mortar was flying, and the marble blocks were moving toward a new look in U.S. legal architecture...
Shepley was cited: "His monument is the good red brick and mortar of his college...
...more necessary than our radar warning nets, and more powerful even than the energy of the atom." To foster that power he asked "federal help to correct an emergency situation." And he meant emergency. "After these new schools are built," he said, "after the bricks are laid and the mortar is dry, the federal mission will be completed...
...Lillie, after four years, back to Broadway. Unhappily, it has brought nothing of its fabled oldtime self back. Not only is Rome not rebuilt in a day; not only do styles in architecture change-even showgirl architecture-but there is the always irreducible need of using good bricks and mortar...
With the trowel used by George Washington in laying the cornerstone of the U.S. Capitol Building in 1793, Dwight Eisenhower last week spread the mortar for the cornerstone of the State Department's new $57.4 million, eight-story-tall, two-block-square headquarters in Washington. For the 8,000-odd staffers now crammed into State's Foggy Bottom headquarters or farmed out among 28 other office buildings, the prospect of at last being in one building by 1960 was welcome. But with an opportunity to build the largest structure in Washington (and second in size among federal buildings...