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Dates: during 1940-1949
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¶Manhattan's Borough President Hugo Rogers decided that New York lamp posts were cluttered with too many signs. He drew up plans for a more beautiful lamp post on which signs too cluttered to read would be replaced by simple initials which almost nobody would understand (samples: NTB...
Of all the tango tunes put together by the Tin Pan Alleys along the Plata, the one locally regarded as No. 1 is La Cumparsita. Gerardo Hernán Mattos Rodríguez, a Uruguayan, wrote it in 1916. An architecture student at the University of Uruguay, he had seen...
Twice the Persians invaded Greece with overwhelming armies & navies, but they had levies from more than 50 slave nations, and the little Greek city-states, fighting for their own hearths and way of life, threw them into the sea. The Carthaginians hired mercenaries to defend their city, and when these...
His motives in building the balcony, he added, had been entirely misrepresented. They were not selfish; the balcony would be too public for him to use, and besides, working from early in the morning until late at night, he would seldom get the chance. He was moved by the esthetics...
Drapes by Draper. For the lush background for his party, Railroader Young had depended on Interior Decorator Dorothy Draper, who had spent more than a year getting Greenbrier ready. She had broken through large areas of white stucco walls and moved Greenbrier's lobby from the second floor to...