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...market that would completely satisfy a golden ear."* The FORTUNE survey passed over lower-priced, lower frequency sets like Crosley, Philco and RCA-Victor, discussed chiefly such visually satisfying high-priced machines ($495 and up) as Scott (with its "impressive assortment of tubes, wires and gadgets on a chromium-plated base"), Capehart (which "holds 20 discs and turns them over automatically") and the Meissner ("offers high fidelity. . . . Except for its cabinets, which are elegant, it claims no special features"). FORTUNE did not mention the newly imported London phonograph, which has the same record changer (Garrard) as the Fisher and lightweight...
...police lieutenant, and by Siodmak. Although his previous efforts--"The Spiral Staircase," among others--have been outstanding. Siodmak has never been more successful in evoking the atmosphere and "feel" of a particular place, be it the unending bleakness of West Philadelphia, or the strident shrillness of a chromium-and-glass bar. His only mistake is unbelievably bad. In the otherwise excellent payroll robbery scene, the presence of palm trees in the background make the fact that it ostensibly occurs in Hackensack, N. J., a little tough to take...
...pleasant." But on her rare visits to the U.S., Gertrude Stein had never made Manhattan's massive Metropolitan Museum one of her haunts: it had no windows in its picture galleries. Furthermore, with all its millions it had never purchased a painting by her favorite artist, Picasso. The chromium-plated, slick Museum of Modern Art, with windows as wide as walls, was more to her taste: it had done more than all other U.S. museums to publicize Picasso...
...grown to be the nation's most powerful bank, a financial monstrosity with a "resource potential" of more than $14 billion which it could lend to states, municipalities, private banks, private businessmen, private citizens. In a 12-story building on Vermont Ave., amidst chromium and marble, in a magnificent air-cooled hush preside the giants who control this enterprise-the five directors. Harry Truman thought George should he one of them...
...office building next door and wants to have St. Mary's condemned so that he can use the property for a parking lot. But Sister Bergman and her nuns pray night & day that mean old Mr. Bogardus will see the light and give up his fine new chromium and steel office building to the school. Father Bing is frankly skeptical of the nuns' childlike faith-until a Hollywood miracle proves him wrong...