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ROBERT RONAN Alhambra, Calif...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: May 5, 1961 | 5/5/1961 | See Source »

...sets up as a private nose, and, like a questing Quixote with a paunchy Panza (Peter Lorre) at his heels, sets out to rescue his damsel in distress. In the course of the hero's aro-mantic maunderings, the customer gets quite an eyeful of Spain: the Alhambra, the Alcazaba, the Cathedral at Malaga, the bullfights at Pamplona. He also gets a snootful: apples, peaches, brandy, wine, tobacco, shoe polish, peppermint, roses, garlic, not to mention the local skunks (Peter Arne, Paul Lukas). All in all, everybody will probably have a snorting good time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Nose Opera | 2/29/1960 | See Source »

This is the fifth time Nixon has called on Klein. The two first met in 1946, when Klein was news editor of the Alhambra...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Nixon's Hagerty | 6/1/1959 | See Source »

...same time, Stone found in the arabesque grilles, used from the windows of Spain's Alhambra to the walls of Hindu temples, a device both ornamental and effective in filtering the sun's rays, which in New Delhi send temperatures up to 120°. By wrapping the grille around the building, Stone achieved not only a massive, highly textured façade, but also successfully reintroduced on a grand scale the element of decoration that has been one of modern architecture's taboos...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: More Than Modern | 3/31/1958 | See Source »

Reduced Thoroughfare. In Alhambra, Calif., homeowners in a growing subdivision-expecting the name 'Viscount" for their new street-complained when signs reading "Discount Street" were...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Mar. 10, 1958 | 3/10/1958 | See Source »

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