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Leaving nothing to chance, Republican National Committee Chairman Len Hall this week will open a farm-belt campaign office in Chicago. Under Colorado's former Governor Dan Thornton, the office will send squads of campaigners into the Midwestern states to beat the drums for the G.O.P. If they get a chance to use their umbrellas, so much the better...
...woods near Saratoga Springs, Playwright Thornton Wilder sat composing a eulogy to the late Thomas Mann. As he wrote, a small balding man, quiet and sharp-eyed as a young deer, moved among the trees, observing and pausing to focus his Leica. The click of the shutter among the bird sounds and leaf rustles was inaudible. Later Wilder wrote in the photographer's memento book: "To Alfred Eisenstaedt-not only a master photographer but a presence so tactful and soothing that I found myself working -really working-and working extra well while he went about his task...
...nation's Capitol has been a center of stormy artistic controversy ever since Amateur Architect Dr. William Thornton had to fend off the claims of his professional rival, Stephen Hallet, to get the credit for his 1793 plan. Last week it was once again the focus of debate. At issue this time: a $12 million appropriation voted by the House to start remodeling the east facade (plus another $28.5 million to remodel the two congressional office buildings and begin building a third...
...Architect Lorimer Rich, designer of Arlington's Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, who upheld the Capitol facade as an "invaluable record of our early architecture which should always remain." The building as it stands, the architects argued, is a living record of the work of such men as Thornton, British-born Benjamin Henry Latrobe (responsible for the handsome east fagade), and Boston's Charles Bulfinch (chief restorer of the Capitol after the British burned it in 1814). Said Architect Rich: "A reproduction is worth only the price it took to build it. An original is priceless...
That was too much for Governor Smith. In the middle of the night he gave Attorney General Thornton sweeping powers to oust Langley immediately from control of the grand jury; the attorney general took it over next morning. At week's end, as the Oregonian and the Journal strained to follow the crooked trail uncovered by Reporters Turner and Lambert, they could agree at least that something was rotten in Portland...