Word: auditorium
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Through the streets of Rochester, Minn, to the jampacked Mayo Civic Auditorium rolled an eight-car motorcade and four-piece band complete with a noisy sousaphone. It was Minnesota's Democrat-Farmer-Labor Party convention, and for the first time in years there were signs of polite dissension inside U.S. Senator Hubert Humphrey's and Governor Orville Freeman's tight-knit organization as the D.F.L. settled back to choose a candidate to run for Eisenhower Republican Ed Thye's Senate seat. The contenders: St. Paul's Eugene McCarthy, 42, onetime St. John's University...
...gaudiest show in town, Tennesseans flocked last week into the auditorium of Nashville's massive War Memorial Building, where the state house of representatives was meeting while the capitol underwent repairs. The show: Tennessee's first impeachment proceeding in 42 years. The accused: Hamilton County's rowdy, Negro-baiting Judge Raulston ("Turkey Neck") Schoolfield...
...Shipbuilding and Stinson Aircraft before he sold his holdings for $2,632,000 during a 1937 fight with the Securities and Exchange Commission. California knows Cord as the man who developed a fabulously profitable eight-block stretch of Beverly Hills' Wilshire Boulevard, owns the 31-acre Pan Pacific Auditorium, has a huge chunk of Santa Anita track stock...
Garden of Eden. Last week the most grandiose plan of them all, Frank Lloyd Wright's Grand Opera and Civic Auditorium, was unveiled. It is a fantasia right out of the Arabian Nights, and Wright, 88, a self-confessed Arabian Nighter since boyhood, meant it to be that way. "If we are able to understand and interpret our ancestors," Wright intoned, "there is no need to copy them. Nor need Baghdad adopt the materialistic structures called 'modern' now barging in from the West upon the East...
Peerless on Earth. For the opera house, Old Master Wright designed "a glorification of acoustics, making of it a poetic circumstance." A mighty crescent rises out of lagoons to the apex of the combined opera house and civic auditorium. Beneath the auditorium is a planetarium; on top, a crenelated cupola housing "Aladdin and His Wonderful Lamp." Close by, soars a towering TV antenna in the form of Mohammed's sword. For his more mundane second commission, a central post office building, Wright sunk the main floor 11 ft. into the earth to get away from the heat, screened...