Word: auditorium
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...showcase is enough to delight any museum visitor. Planned by Director Robert B. Inverarity, 44, a wartime Navy artist and part-time anthropologist, the museum's building is clean and functional, all on one floor and with plenty of well-lighted exhibition space. There is a comfortable auditorium with a stage and movie screen, a wing of workshops with special looms for reweaving damaged fabrics, photo labs and a microfilm room, a complete research library and special workrooms for visiting scholars. The building is air-conditioned, and when visitors get tired of looking at the exhibits, they can relax...
...Depression. The Baptists took it over for a trifling $300,000 (current evaluation: about $11,000,000 ), and converted it into one of the most luxurious church centers in the U.S.: an 81 -room hotel was already standing, the "largest barn in Wisconsin" became an 800-seat auditorium, an old hog barn became a 22-bedroom residence and dormitory. The result was a kind of apogee of the nature-loving, creature-comfortable Christianity for which the U.S. is noted. "Beauty, godliness and away-from-the-city fellowship," according to Smith, lead Green Lakers to "a closer walk with...
...graduation day, reported Clinton, Joey was no longer wan and nervous. Treatment had brought her disease almost to the arrested point, and only a few pocked scars remained. Dressed in a white cap and gown, she mounted the steps to the stage of the hospital auditorium to make the valedictory address to some 400 fellow patients and friends, including the Philippine consul from New Orleans...
Before he hurried back to Washington, the President promised an audience of 2,800 Texans in the Amarillo Public Auditorium that he would act fast. "I was born and raised . . . almost at the end of the Chisholm Trail," he said. "It is not strange that I have hurried here . . . We are not going to wait until the last cow has starved to death until something is done. Something is going to be done now." The President assured his hearers that he would act promptly on emergency recommendations of Agriculture Secretary Benson and the governors. As he climbed back into...
Spawned in Chicago's Congress and Auditorium Hotels when sewage got into food rooms and water pipes, it was not detected until at least 1,400 victims had scattered across the U.S., caused close to 100 deaths. (Best-known victim: Nightclub Hostess Texas Guinan.) With earlier detection and better drugs, South Bend need fear no such disaster...