Ralph, is this an appropriate use of architectural historians?  I suppose it
fits in there with throwing their bodies in the path of bulldozers and swinging
from wrecking balls.  (I wonder if it might be more efficient to hang out at
Toys are Yutz and recruit all the screaming little ones being dragged around
hanging from papa's knee.)  (I wonder if there is a relative drop in the art
historian population from protesters who had distractions at other periods of
time?)

I wonder why there is not movement to claim that the blitz is a myth?

-jc

Ralph Walter wrote:

> In a message dated 12/3/2000 6:07:25 PM Eastern Standard Time,
> [log in to unmask] writes:
>
> << SUNDAY, Dec. 3 (HealthScout) -- Lower air pollution levels in London have
>  cut in half the rate of weathering on St. Paul's Cathedral, one of the
>  city's most famous landmarks, says a new study. >>
>
> 'Atsa nice.
>
> In the meantime, as I believe I reported previously in this space, my arch'l
> history teacher,  the vastly underappreciated Marcus Whiffen, told us that
> St. Paul's was saved during the Blitz by the Architectural Historians, who
> ran around throwing bombs and similar building-unfriendly devices and their
> byproducts off the roof.
>
> Ralph