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...rotunda, 96 ft. below the dome, workmen unpacked the statue of Thomas Jefferson, raised it section by section to its black marble pedestal. The sun, streaming between the pillars, cast moving patterns of light and shadow over the workers. Their voices echoed somberly in the great room. A few visitors peered...
Fitted like a giant picture puzzle, the world's largest photomural was pasted last week on the east wall of the vast, high-vaulted rotunda of Manhattan's Grand Central Station. When the crew of workmen climbed down from their gargantuan paperhanging job, Grand Central's milling crowds saw a 96-by-118-foot symbolic picture of three things the U.S. is fighting for: the fertile U.S. land, the productiveness of U.S. industry, the future welfare of U.S. children. Its purpose: to encourage travelers and commuters* to buy more U.S. defense bonds and stamps...
When Artist Christy had finished his mighty acreage of oil painting it was propped up in the Capitol's rotunda for 16 months while a legislative commission cast about for a likely place to hang it. Likeliest places in the Capitol were already occupied by such rival historical scenes as The Battle of Chapultepec and Westward the Course of Empire Takes its Way. One Capitol picture, however, Carpenter's dignified First Reading of the Emancipation Proclamation, failed to fill its wall space. So the commission decided to cart it off to the old Supreme Court chamber and replace...
...view of the capacity crowd expected, both dining rooms, the rotunda, and the Lower Common Room will be thrown open to the dancing couples. As an improvement over earlier Jubilees a printed program is offered. A midnight supper with hamburgers, ice cream, and cake will supersede the evening's punch bowl at 12:30 o'clock...
...galleries on the main floor, light fell with scientifically controlled evenness through laminated glass skylights, which let in diffused sunlight by day, artificial sunlight by night. In the basement, a Dali dream of convoluted pipes and fans air-conditioned the whole building, from the soaring spaces of the rotunda to the tiled cafeteria where staff and public could snatch a sandwich between expeditions...