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Riverdale is as authentic an example of U.S. suburbia as diagonal parking and the 7:53. It reclines on a well-groomed, rocky hillside where The Bronx meets Westchester, gives glimpses of itself to commuters motoring by on the Henry Hudson Parkway. Its broad playing fields and ivied brick buildings, countrified by fieldstone fireplaces, are shaded by well-kept maples and oaks, bordered by neat shrubbery. At 9 each morning six big school busses and more than a dozen station wagons and cars roll up, unload well-scrubbed tots and adolescents from Bronxville, Yonkers, Tuckahoe, Riverdale, The Bronx, Manhattan...
...colossal, rambling Philadelphia Museum of Art, which stood so long half-occupied at the end of the Parkway like an Acropolis with painted toenails, last week formally took its place as one of the most important museums of painting in the U.S. Opened to the public was the most comprehensive collection of European painting ever privately assembled in the U.S., covering virtually the entire history of European art: 575 canvases, displayed in 20 new galleries, some 600 more in storerooms available to students. The collection was the achievement of a lifetime of picture-buying by one of Philadelphia...
Arthur C. Hyman '42, composed a slightly erotic piece inspired by signs along the Merritt Parkway, entitled "Keep Right Except When Passing." Though now it has drifted into temporary oblivion, the most easily remembered verses go something like this: "Keep right except when passing, get control of your nerves, 'cause soft shoulders mean dangerous curves . . . . Keep right except when passing, both hands on the wheel, steer straight to love, baby, you know the way I feel...
...lectures, and motion pictures." The Theatre Auditorium must seat 800 spectators, provide accomodations for an orchestra of 40 musicians, and hold a stage 70 to 75 feet wide. The site selected "is the vacant land in Soldiers Field, bounded by the Harvard Business School, Western Avenue, and the Metropolitan Parkway (along the Charles River...
Governed by rigid restrictions laid down for buildings on Benjamin Franklin Parkway, the court matches the adjacent Free Library, both being copies of the Marine Ministry in Paris. Architect W. R. Morton Keast, who wangled $1,525,500 of PWA money for the building, was given free hand with the interior. But because of PWA and Philadelphia municipal requirements, Architect Keast had to call for competitive bids for murals. However, he persuaded PWA to let the bidders tell the jury about their qualifications. Philadelphia's municipal Art Jury (once headed by Collector Joe Widener) passed upon 22 bidding artists...