Roman L. Hruska Federal Building

despite honoring a conservative Czechoslovakian politician, the federal courthouse affronts not the surrounding structures; its architecture balances these most pronounced characteristics of its namesake to achieve a design neither austere nor Bohemian.

still: nearly half the height of most buildings adjacent, it is doubly dispensable.

Wells Fargo

for the rare occasions that a Cézanne is not an accepted mode of exchange, I keep more liquid assets at this venerable institution.

St. Cecilia's Cathedral

the summer season of society weddings begins this afternoon with the marriage of Mister Basil E. F. Ludlow to Miss Marianne Hester Kilpatrick Lynnwood--he the most eligible bachelor in the county, she a maiden with a dowry that more than adequately ameliorates her physical deficiencies and a rare practicing Catholic of marriageable age.

despite the mysterious rituals which nightly occur there, quite lovely is the chapel in daylight.

Offices on the Seventh Floor

on an errand for my mother, I suddenly realized that I had not ridden a lift in weeks.

perhaps because the grand edifices I frequent are generally much wider than they are tall. or maybe because when I occasion a visit to an organization founded on sound investments and more than adequate financing, businessmen usually descend to meet me in the lobby.