Word: truxtun
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Italian weekly L'Europeo announced that "even if Wright were ten thousand times greater than Michelangelo, it would be presumptuous of him to wish to build on the Grand Canal." Letter writers to the London Times denounced the Wright invasion as "a piece of inexcusable vandalism." Mrs. Marie Truxtun Beale, a wealthy U.S. socialite, who helped raise more than $125,000 for repairs to St. Mark's Basilica, wrote Venetian Mayor Angelo Spanio: "Defend you city. If you allow this, I will regret having done anything...