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...programs. Workmen started tearing out the old lift, proudly reported they had found a hoofprint of Algonquin in the cork tile floor. The cage will go to the Smithsonian Institution as a relic. It will be replaced by a speedy, fireproof elevator designed by White House Architect Lorenzo Winslow at Harry Truman's order. Until about Oct. 1 the Truman family will have to use the stairways...
Another modernizing job was near completion. Architect Winslow had found the two big sandstone pillars of the northwest Pennsylvania entrance to the White House grounds out of plumb. One had slipped two inches off the vertical. Wind and vibration from Pennsylvania Avenue's trolleys had tilted the other about three-quarters of an inch. The pillars dated back to the restoration of the White House after the British burned it in 1814, but they would not become relics; Winslow's workmen got them back in plumb after weeks of work...
...Colby decided to move to a hillside spot just outside Waterville, Me. The college had a new president, Franklin Winslow Johnson, a square-jawed Colby graduate, who had written a clause into his contract declaring that he would not have to raise funds. But he spent most of the next 13 years doing just that. (Notable catch: $200,000 from the Saturday Evening Post's George Horace Lorimer '98.) By 1942, when Johnson retired, the first of Colby's new Georgian buildings blossomed amid the trailing arbutus on Mayflower Hill...
...uneasy task of assembling the show was slender, studious Curator John Walker of Washington's National Gallery. Walker and his helpers among top-drawer U.S. museum directors had no trouble picking 19th Century masters like Winslow Homer and Thomas Eakins, but debated back & forth over such contemporary choices as Morris Grave's scratchy watercolor called Little Known Bird of the Inner Eye and Man Ray's crisp Admiration of the Ochestrelle for the Cinematograph...
Last week, a few doors down Shaftesbury Avenue from While the Sun Shines, London playgoers were seeing a new Rattigan offering-and wondering what had come over the lightfoot lad of British show business. His new Winslow Boy was bright enough, but it had insides...