Word: columbus
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...definite cleavage seems to be taking place between the mentality of a public, and a Congress, which was nursed on tales of Columbus, Edison, the Wright brothers, etc., and the mentality of the scientists themselves, who can hardly lose sight of the enormous preponderance of unpublicized pipe-dreams. Since all the more romantic advance of science are found in retrospect to have been impeded by forces of malice and darkness, it is perhaps not surprising to see some present-day pessimists accused as traitors or, at best, as imbeciles. One consequence may well be a trend towards blind sponsorship...
...Manhattan, the city's plans for a $30 million Coliseum-four exhibition halls and a 20-story office building-at Columbus Circle were denounced by the influential Art News. Editor Alfred Frankfurter called the proposed design "utterly pedestrian," said the building would not fit into its surroundings, concluded that the whole project was "tragical, not comical." Frankfurter took to task Chairman Robert Moses of the city's Triborough Bridge and Tunnel Authority, which is underwriting the Coliseum, for the "completely dictatorial way [he] is imposing this design upon the public," suggested "recourse to law" to put a halt...
Sears had also been scheduled to debate Rabbi Leo Shubow on March 11 on the question, "Is Senator Joseph McCarthy an Influence for Good or Evil." Shubow was asked to take the negative side. The debate, scheduled for a Columbus Forum, was called off by the Catholic Church...
...former New York girdle model who put three-quarters of an inch onto her hipline and grew out of every available designer's pattern. Reluctant to return to Mother without achieving fame, she spends her savings to display her name, Gladys, Glover, on a four-story billboard in Columbus Circle. The ensuring difficulties confuse the other protagonists of the film while Gladys Glover remains blissfully unshaken. This unawareness, along with Glady's bewildered glances and unrestrained smiles make the humor of the film ample though Mr. Kanin's plot is thin...
Webb had no sets, no camera crew, and could only hope he would be able to cast, direct and edit a motion picture. He briskly talked the police force into letting him shoot his scenes in their offices. Early on the morning of Columbus Day, 1951, while a rented Mitchell camera followed him (low side shot from a high hat) and off-duty cops held back spectators, Webb hurried across Los Angeles' Spring Street and up the steps of the city hall. Halfway to the top he hesitated, turned toward the camera, flipped away a cigarette, looked...