In 1968 Edward Durrell Stone gave a reporter for Business Week this account
of a conversation he just happened to overhear by two men gazing upon the
new General Motors Building, at 58th and Fifth: '' 'It's more beautiful
than the Taj Mahal,' '' one exclaimed. 'They ought to knight the s.o.b. who
designed it,' said the other.' '' And in 1972 Stone told Paul Goldberger,
for a profile in The Times on the architect: ''There isn't a taxi driver in
New York who won't say the General Motors Building is the most beautiful
thing in the city.''
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