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...members of the U.S. political Left were impressed by the gleaming pink façade of Henry Wallace's hybrid Progressive Citizens of America (TIME, Jan. 6). In Washington last week 150-odd intellectuals, labor leaders and New Deal disciples got together to form a new organization of their own. They had been called together by the Union for Democratic Action, a militant pressure group of ardent "liberals...
...Lloyd in The Freshman, bought a yellow slicker and an open Ford, and was pledged by Sigma Chi, which never got over it. The fraternity has since elected him-like Cartoonist McCutcheon before him-to its select group of "Significant Sigs" (others: Booth Tarkington, Roy Chapman Andrews and George Ade...
Floodlights made the still unfinished façade stick out like a sore (but well-manicured) thumb. Under the rich-red-marquee and in the gold-tinted, glass-walled lobby, uniformed attendants and tuxedoed higher-ups bowed and bustled. The grand opening of Manhattan's Park Avenue Theater last week had all the hoopla of a Hollywood première, except for one thing. There were no crowds...
...largest clock told the time. In the huge, marbled lobbies of South America's tallest and finest railway station, loudspeakers poured out sambas. But the Government-operated Central do Brasil's new Dom Pedro II Station in Rio was incomplete behind its majestic façade. Train sheds had still to be roofed. At rush hour 150,000 commuters and fellow travelers jammed narrow platforms, were squirted on & off trains like toothpaste. The grandeur of Dom Pedro II Station could not mask the rickety state of Brazil's railways...
...building in a land where churchly magnificence rules, is in plain sight of the famed Church of the Virgin of Guadalupe, chief shrine of Mexican Catholicism. The church's few small stained-glass windows are protected by chicken wire from rocks hurled by passing Catholics. Its façade is always mud-spattered. Once an attempt was made to burn the building...