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...capitals of the world. But big U.S. airlines like TWA are flying more fuel-efficient and quieter planes like the Boeing 747 and the new Boeing 757. Meanwhile, the prototype for the 707 waits patiently outside Tucson, Ariz., for the day when it will be moved into the Smithsonian's Air and Space Museum in Washington...
...battle was over-and to the curators went the spoils. The blue-and-white lectern emblem proclaiming NATIONAL WOMEN'S CONFERENCE 1977, which had hung for three hectic, fractious, exhilarating days in Houston, last week was headed for Washington's Smithsonian Institution. It will repose with such other memorabilia as the star-spangled banner that flew over Fort McHenry and Charles Lindbergh's Spirit of St. Louis. And well it might...
This aspect of Wright's work is exemplified in "Frank Lloyd Wright and the Prairie School," a show of more than 250 furnishings, drawings, photographs and documents that opened last week at New York City's Cooper-Hewitt Museum, the Smithsonian Institution's national museum of design. The exhibition, which will run until Dec. 31, is an almost intimately informal survey of Wright's brilliant beginnings, from his tracing of a Louis Sullivan ornament in 1892 to his drawings for the Dorothy Martin Foster House in Buffalo in 1923, which marked a new direction...
Wright's designs went out of fashion long before he died in 1976. The exhibition "Russel Wright: American Designer" (currently at the Hudson River Museum in Yonkers, N.Y., and opening at the Smithsonian's Renwick Gallery in Washington, D.C., in November) should revive fond memories and be an exciting discovery for those who never heard...
Edmund Morris, a Theodore Roosevelt biographer, reminds us that invective can sting and skewer, yet bring admiration for the pronouncer. He spoke at the Smithsonian Institution last month on T.R. as a writer, noting that Roosevelt indulged in the biting phrase for the sheer joy of it. "One often heard the undertone of Homeric chuckling," said Morris, when Roosevelt delivered himself of another polished gem, "as if, after all, he loved the fun of hating what he hated." Few people could stay angry at such artistry and boyishness...