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...famous historical frieze in the rotunda of the Capitol is concerned, American history begins with Columbus and ends with the discovery of gold in California in 1848. But for 64 years there has been an unfinished blank space waiting to be painted in. Last week, at the bidding of Congress, Muralist Allyn Cox of Manhattan was busy with a $15,000 commission to bring history up to date...
Washington's Capitol guides were just beginning their chants one day last week when a tiny, blue-eyed woman with curly grey hair strode into the rotunda. While sightseers gawked, she hopped spryly on to a roped-off platform, sat down on John Trumbull's huge (13 by 18 ft.) Surrender of Lord Cornwallis, which was lying flat there, and started touching up Trumbull's paint. Marie Francisca Kalnoky, a full-fledged, two-castle Hungarian countess who fled Europe in 1949, was busy at her latest job: giving some of the Capitol's historic paintings their...
Cornwallis Went Boom. In Washington, a gallery hired her, gave her the job of restoring three of the rotunda's old Trumbulls: The Surrender of General Burgoyne, The Resignation of General Washington and the Cornwallis. The countess says it wasn't a hard job. The linings were rotted and the paint flaked in spots, but there were no hands or feet to be repainted...
Meanwhile the Harvard Square Business Men's Association was campaigning to eliminate the subway kiosk. But when they discovered that having to walk from Central Square would drive way customers, the razing program went up in smoke. The rotunda increased traffic snarls and the CRIMSON noted that this was particularly dangerous for "untrained freshmen...
...South Station area was converted into a sea of humanity...The crowd screamed: "The general. The general." ...When he emerged from the rotunda into the street the throng set a chant which was to echo all the way to Quincy and back again...