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...with several other sons in the Hall of Columns one floor below. Under a Congressional resolution, mainly because the great weight of almost 100 statues was considered unsafe, the Hall of Statuary now contains only one immortal son from each State. Many factors influenced the choice of which to move???size and weight of statue, suitability to new locations, etc. Many curious protests were made; but the change is nearly complete, the Hall looks far better, and each immortal son is still to be found close by, somewhere within the Capitol, visible to all who care...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Dec. 17, 1934 | 12/17/1934 | See Source »

...only because he holds no brief for his great open spaces. He does not let his watering eye wander for chapters over the mesas, nor does he shake his horny finger reproachfully at the jazzing East. He hasn't time. His heroes are always too much on the move???solving mysteries, pulling guns, cracking jokes, riding pintos, drinking redeye, winning heroines, proving that the accusations against them are (in large part) false? anyway exaggerated. This book follows the accepted pattern. He gives you what you want if you buy a book with this title?unencumbered by vast masses of sticky...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books : Books : Jan. 28, 1924 | 1/28/1924 | See Source »

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