Word: 54th
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...counselor to the 54th Governor of Michigan is God. In his office every morning the Governor prays for five minutes (see cut). Prayer, he says, brought him Boyles & Moyer, helped him choose many another political appointee. ("We were looking for a man to fill a certain State office. Suddenly the name . . . was made clear to me. I mentioned it. My legal aide, Emerson R. Boyles, said to me: 'You have a pipeline.' 'Yes,' I said, 'I have a pipeline...
...Manhattan last week the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation emerged from abstraction to reality in the shape of an elegant, three-story, glassy gallery on East 54th Street. Through every spacious room amplifiers sent the moping or striding music of Bach; the walls were pure white and velvety grey, and on them were displayed 415 items from the Guggenheim collection. Predominant types: the whorls, jackstraws and disembodied eyelashes of Russian Vasily Kandinsky; the massive, machinelike color patterns of French Fernand Léger; the planetary balls and bubbles, interlocking triangles and color spots of German Rudolf Bauer. It was the biggest...
Just off Fifth Avenue on 54th Street, touched by the midday shadow of Rockefeller Center's enormous slab, stood the old four-story and nine-story mansions of the Rockefeller family. Town dwellings of the elder and younger John D. Rockefeller for, respectively, 40 and 2 5 years, the houses were abandoned two years ago to wreckers. Last week the site became part of a long garden. In the garden were evergreens, arbors, trees, wattle screens, and sculpture by Lachaise, Despiau, Zorach, Lipchitz. One fair spring night it was filled with hundreds of men with starched white bosoms...
From and about Robert Alphonso Taft (son of Ohio's sixth President) the U. S. has heard much since he was elected to the Senate last year. From and about Ohio's 54th Governor, the U. S. has heard almost nothing...
...though they were horses in a paddock, pointed to a stolid, bronze-skinned young man. "Look, there's the Indian, Tarzan Brown, who won in 1936. But he went over to those Olympics and hasn't been the same since. Finished 31st two years ago and 54th last year. He'll set the pace-and burn himself...