Word: arching
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This small story, appearing last week in Bursa's satirical weekly Chivi, was one Turkish magazine's arch way of replying to Premier Adnan Menderes' recent clampdown on freedom of the press in Turkey (TIME, June 11). But though Chivi was only fooling, it soon found that Menderes was not. The ink was scarcely dry, when Chivi's editor was haled into court, fined 10,000 lire ($3,600) and sentenced to a year in jail for "writing with malicious and tendentious intent...
...that he was going to be something more than just the son of a famous father was the national competition for the St. Louis Jefferson National Expansion Memorial in 1948. The elder Saarinen submitted a formal monumental design; Eero's entry was an audacious, 590-ft. stainless-steel arch that looked like a giant, glistening croquet wicket-which he had conceived while bending a wire and wool pipe cleaner. A telegram announced Eliel the winner. The family broke out the traditional champagne to celebrate...
Only days later was the secretary's mistake uncovered: the $40,000 first prize was properly Eero's. His arch, hailed by the jury as "a work of genius . . . which will rank it among the nation's great monuments," has not yet been built, but it is Eero Saarinen's favorite work...
...Television Playhouse offered a soporific love story about an Army nurse and a wounded boy lieutenant; Studio One had a rambling farce that required a parcel of adults to pretend that they thought a coffee urn was a top-secret ballistic missile; Playwrights '56 went arch and arty about a British murder trial; Kraft TV Theater contributed a cops-and-robbers bit that depended on the excessive dumbness of its hero to keep it alive for 60 minutes...
After the war, he published The Age of Jackson, challenging the standard analysis of Jackson as the arch frontiersman, and reinterpreting the period with more emphasis on its intellectual values and the urban roots of its reform spirit. Though he is modest about the book's merits, it earned him a Pulitzer Prize for History at the age of twentyeight. Much of the book was written, a friend claims, with "one twin on each knee." Schlesinger still continues to do much of his work amid the clamor of his children, now increased to four...