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Belle, John & Maxinne R. Leighton. Grand Central: Gateway to a Million Lives.
Norton. 1999. c. 192p. illus, bibliog. index. LC 98-51419. ISBN 0-393-04765-2. $35. ARCHITECTURE
New York City's Grand Central Terminal is among those iconic structures that symbolize, if not a nation, then a national spirit. This book recounts the dramatic story of the terminal with a cast that includes the Vanderbilt dynasty, Jimmy Durante, and Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis. Architects Belle and Leighton, whose firm supervised the spectacularly successful restoration of …