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Artist Artzybasheff's cover of Allen Dulles (TIME, Aug. 3) started another flow of verse when Reader Bertram H. Brown of Greensborp, N.C. complained of the detailed attention paid to Dulles' hair and received this answer from the Poet's Corner...
...slogan in Soviet Russia is "Bring On the Consumer Goods." Ever since Premier Georgy Malenkov passed the word, with his talk of "smart clothes and elegant footwear" (TIME, Aug. 17), the vast engines of Soviet propaganda have been at work grinding out the tidings of a fuller and happier life for the citizens. Day after day, Pravda and Radio Moscow paint glittering pictures of a land of milk and honey, teeming with TV sets and People's cars. The new day will dawn, says Deputy Premier Anastas Mikoyan, some time...
Flesh & Effigy. The Catholic authorities acted fast. Servetus was arrested and clapped in jail, but he escaped and made his way to Geneva in disguise. There, on Sunday, Aug. 13, 1553, he was recognized at church, arrested by the Calvinists...
...retrospective show of photos, plans and models, on display last week in a giant, slab-roofed pavilion -he designed for the purpose on a vacant Manhattan lot adjoining the Guggenheim Museum. If Wright can overcome the objections of New York City's housing authorities (TIME, Aug. 10), a new Guggenheim Museum, shaped in a spiral that expands upward, will rise on the same site next year. By then Wright's show, which has already toured Europe, will be on tour in the Orient. Among the architectural landmarks on exhibition:¶A full-scale mock-up of the kind...
...General Motors Corp. reported nine-month sales of $7.9 billion, highest in its history, and $400 million more than in all of last year. G.M. netted $453 million, v. $387 million a year ago. Third-quarter earnings, nipped by the disastrous Livonia plant fire (TIME. Aug. 24), were $140 million, v. $11 8 million a year ago, when the steel strike slowed down operations...