Word: americans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Later, while teaching at Walter Gropius' Bauhaus in Germany, another childhood influence returned to shape the major part of Feininger's art: it was his passion for American precision, as expressed in Manhattan's illimitable grid of straight streets, its now-vanished els, old New York Central trains with diamond-shaped smokestack and steam domes of polished brass, and Hudson River sidewheelers and yachts, of which he used to build faithful models. There, working side by side with fellow fantasists, topped by Paul Klee. and fellow precisionists, notably Josef Albers. Feininger evolved the weird, airy, many-faceted...
...parents may find such conclusions oddly bland. An American child can see 12½ hours of nighttime westerns weekly v. 3⅓ in Britain, 10 hours of private-eye shows v. 5 in Britain. And by comparison with such U.S. cut-'n'-shoots as Peter Gunn (see below), the British children's favorite thriller, gentlemanly Fabian of Scotland Yard, rarely fired a slug from pistol or bottle. The British sociologists still saw much room for improvement: better dramas outside the dog-cowboy-detective formulas, more attention to girls (half the audience). Meanwhile, as the London Daily Mirror...
...formally expressing President Eisenhower's "regret" that he was powerless to reverse the 60-year-old jury decree. Thereupon Texas' Democratic Representative Homer Thornberry announced that he was studying the possibility of asking for quick action by Congress. Intoned the Chicago Sun-Times: "A grateful and appreciative American public pardoned O. Henry many, many years...
Died. Martene Windsor (Bill) Corum, 63, syndicated New York Journal-American sports columnist, president of Louisville's Churchill Downs race track, network commentator for major boxing events and the World Series; of lung cancer; in Manhattan. Missouri-born Bill Corum started out with the New York Times, went over to Hearst in 1925. That year he saw his first Kentucky Derby, from then on advertised the race so fondly in his columns that when Colonel Matt Winn died in 1949 Corum found that he had written his way into the presidency of Churchill Downs...
Wall Street still has its speculators. But Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith, in a survey of 300,000 big, little and medium-sized investors, discovered that the vast majority bought for long-term investment and had no intention of selling, despite the recession. Even American Telephone & Telegraph Co., that staid old lady of the utilities, is getting to be a growth stock...