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...most impressive in the U.S. Brown brick and somber on the outside, surrounded by twelve acres of brown gravel parking space, on the inside Temple Emanu-el sparkles with stained glass, gold, green and blue mosaic work, and a curtain of shimmering metallic cloth in front of the Ark. The temple, at the intersection of Northwest Highway and Hillcrest Avenue, cost its Reform congregation $2,000,000, stands on one of the most valuable pieces of real estate in the city's bustling northwest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Temple in Texas | 2/11/1957 | See Source »

...court's decision cleared up a dispute between the Lion Oil Co. of El Dorado, Ark. and the Oil Workers International Union, which called a strike to back up demands in 1952, when their long-term contract could be opened for modification. Though the union gave the required 60 days' notice, the company held that it violated the Taft-Hartley Act because the contract had merely been reopened, not terminated. The National Labor Relations Board ruled in favor of the union, but a circuit court overruled NLRB. By ruling that the term "expiration date" can refer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: Right to Strike | 2/4/1957 | See Source »

...built a stately mansion, Albemarle, 192 ft. long and set off by eight superb columns ("We would put up a column . . . take it down and remove half an inch of diameter, and then keep on doing this until the column was right"). Lambert also built the township of Lambrook, Ark., where he invested half a million dollars. Soon Jerry Lambert found himself with personal debts "approaching" $700,000, and went to work for the family business. Within two months Gerard Lambert was the company's general manager, "although I still had no office." Within seven years he had paid...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Father of Halitosis | 1/14/1957 | See Source »

...Hamlen returned to Cambridge from his industrial management post in Little Rock, Ark., to organize the Har-general secretary of the Alumni Council. The University awarded Hamlen an honorary Master of Arts degree...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Ex-Head of Alumni Dies; Headed Boston Red Cross | 1/7/1957 | See Source »

Divorced. By Vivian Elaine (real name: Vivian Stapleton), 35, actress (Miss Adelaide of Guys and Dolls on both stage and screen): Manny G. Frank, 54, her longtime agent; after eleven years of marriage, no children; in Little Rock, Ark...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Dec. 24, 1956 | 12/24/1956 | See Source »

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