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Contents: Smithsonian Horizons, Letters to the Editor, Around the Hall and Beyond, Picture Credits, Phenomena, comment and notes, The Invasion Of The Tower Crane (The first arrived in 1958; now these “one-legged dinosaurs” loom over virtually every urban skyline), A Life Of Art And Passion (Camille Claudel, a sculptor herself, loved the great Rodin, left him, and died in a madhouse), The Puma Is No Longer A Varmint (Today it is a hunter’s trophy or a protected symbol of the West’s wildness, but can it be both?), The Unholy Problem Of Holy Benares (After 2,500 years of receiving bathers, cremations and just plain waste, its Ganges River is sick), Why Millions Of People Go To State Fairs (They continue to embody most of the best and a little of the worst in American life), Old Spain ‘Turned Inside Out’ (It’s what the nondescript resort that was Palm Beach became at the hands of architect Addison Mizner), Mighty Niagara, Mecca Of Newlyweds And Artists (The honeymooners took away private memories, but the painters’ views make up a public show), The French At Table (Their cuisine is elegant today, but in the past they ate almost anything, including one another), ‘That Crazy Yankee’ Johnny Moiosant (He was the media hero of aviation’s early days, even though he just barely knew how to fly), Book Reviews, Additional Reading, September Events at the Smithsonian, Smithsonian Tours, An Irrepressible Journal
Issue: September 1985
Condition: Very Good