Word: chicago
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Closing in on Culbertson, Goren replaced him as the Chicago Tribune syndicate's bridge columnist when Ely moved over to the Sun in 1944. A year later, sprightly Columnist Goren was appearing in more papers than Culbertson. Then, in 1951 Goren published his point-count bidding system in Contract Bridge Complete, and overwhelmed Culbertson with the decisiveness of a trump...
While Roman Catholic McCarty went to church to give thanks for his startling picture, editors around the nation peeled it from Telephoto receivers with mixed reactions. Some newspapers that passed it by-Chicago American, Rocky Mount (N.C.) Telegram-called it "inflammatory." Little Rock's Arkansas Gazette did not use it, and Editor Harry Ashmore said: "Moving the picture on the wire was inexcusable. The fact is that racial incidents are no higher here than usual, despite the continuing struggle over school desegregation...
Among the runners-up, Dean of U.S. Architecture Frank Lloyd Wright picked up enough votes to place a fourth building, Manhattan's still unfinished Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, in 18th place. Adler & Sullivan added St. Louis' 1890 Wainwright Building (eighth) and Chicago's 1889 Auditorium (13th). Ludwig Mies van der Rohe won tenth place with Manhattan's House of Seagram (TIME, March 3) and 24th with his Lake Shore Drive apartments in Chicago. Famed 19th century Architect Henry Hobson Richardson also rated two buildings: Boston's 1877 Trinity Church (14th) and Chicago's since...
...Frank Lloyd Wright's Robie House (1909), nicknamed "the Battleship," an earth-hugging, brick masonry private house with free-running cantilevers, on Chicago's Woodlawn Avenue. Saved earlier this year from destruction, it will be handed over to the National Trust for Historic Preservation...
...Adler & Sullivan's Carson Pirie Scott department store (1899-1904), at State and Madison Streets in Chicago-Louis Sullivan's dramatic step forward in the development of the skyscraper...