The statue of the Princess of Wales was unveiled last week
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SIR – It was astonishing, but somehow not unexpected, to see such an unbecoming memorial to Princess Diana unveiled last week (report, July 2). It is positively Stalinist in its dreary greyness, its unsympathetic portrayal of its subject, and its consequent failure to capture a likeness or her ebullient character.
Much better would have been an even more extensive memorial planting of the Sunken Garden.
Marian Waters
SIR – Simon Heffer explores important issues in his lament over the poor quality of modern public statues (Features, July 3), perhaps most
clearly shown in the festival of tat inflicted on the “empty plinth” in Trafalgar Square.
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Adorable local letters to Santa in 1900
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1954: Santa Clause distributed presents yesterday at a party at Scully Post, American Legion, sponsored by the Association for the Help of Retarded Children and the Albany Elks Club. Santa is Elmer Parker, representing the Elks, and the adult helpers, from left, are Mrs. Marie Van Amerongen, co-chairman; Louis Ramundo, whose orchestra played for the party, and Mrs. Rose Alice McGloine Jr. Unidentified boy at the right was a guest at the party. (Knickerbocker News Staff Photo/Times Union Archive)Knickerbocker News Staff Photo/Times Union Historic ImagesShow MoreShow Less