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...result, Joe's San Francisco is a lonely place. Its deserted streets are eerily illuminated by glowing jar-shaped street lights ("my trademark"); deep shadows surround ghostly, luminous walls. Empty cable cars creep along phosphorescent tracks. To get his subjects, Oneto prowls San Francisco's hills and back streets, goes back night after night to verify troublesome details. On his jaunts, Oneto keeps an eye peeled for old-fashioned houses, especially those with plenty of gingerbread: "I'm only interested in San Francisco architecture before the [1906] fire." A good example of Oneto's preference...
Rooms in Dunster either overlook the beautiful Charles River--or they don't. If they don't one is apt to get a rather uninspiring view of the drab tenements which surround the House. All Dunster rooms were meant originally to be either doubles or singles--with crowded conditions many were converted into triples, but that is about as big as they...
Ruiz Cortínez' friends say that as President he will run his own show and will clean out the fat-contract men who surround the present administration. A middle-of-the-roader in domestic politics, he promises to continue Alemán's foreign policy of close friendship with the U.S. In the PRI tradition, he will not accept victory without putting up a show for it. Between now and July, he will tour the country in what he says will be a "gentlemanly and principally patriotic" campaign...
Olmsted foresaw that the "town" would soon surround his creation, installed four cross-park driveways. A touch of inspiration led him to sink the driveways below ground-level and thus preserve the park's visual harmony. Fighting off the people who wanted to embellish the park with opera houses, race tracks, cathedrals and fire stations was more difficult but almost as successful. Today, the one notable encroacher on the park's priceless real estate is the Metropolitan Museum...
...Harvard University Band, under the baton of Malcolm Holmes '28, will play at the celebration of the 75th anniversary of the National League. The affair will take place on June 2, and will surround a ball game between the Braves and the Chicago Cubs at the Commonwealth Avenue Teepee...