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So far as the famous historical frieze in the rotunda of the Capitol is concerned, American history begins with Columbus and ends with the discovery of gold in California in 1848. But for 64 years there has been an unfinished blank space waiting to be painted in. Last week, at...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: 26 Feet of History | 12/1/1952 | See Source »

Depression. Almost all his major speeches included sketches of the horrors of the Great Depression. "Conservative, law-abiding farmers organized to march on towns and to loot the stores. Children left home to spare their parents another mouth to feed . . . Millions of American men & women waited in the breadlines ..." The...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Adlai's Five Days | 10/20/1952 | See Source »

According to Haliday, no plans have been made for the theatre after December, but he indicated that two motion picture distributors were bidding for the building. Both distributors wish to exhibit foreign or "art-type" movies.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Brattle Theatre 'Dead'; HTG Will Use Building | 10/14/1952 | See Source »

Said Engstrom last week at a Chicago conference: "Electronics, with its unlimited ability to count, remember and control ... is ... literally asking to take over certain duties which have been performed by men's minds-thinking processes. What man can conceive, comprehend and perform, he will be able to construct...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Creative Electronics | 10/13/1952 | See Source »

When the Justice Department's Office of Alien Property got ready this year to sell Manhattan's E. Leitz, Inc., the U.S. distributors of Leica cameras, it took pains to see that E. Leitz did not fall back into the hands of its German parent, Ernst Leitz of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN TRADE: Shell Game | 10/13/1952 | See Source »

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