Word: corners
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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AFTER years of effortless selling, a buyers' market has returned in some industries; in others, it is just around the corner. It is a strange kind of buyers' market, coming, as it does, in the midst of what is still a boom economy. For businessmen it raises an important question: When sales drop, should production be cut to bring it in line with sales, or should prices be cut to keep sales up with production...
...made simple: students may appear at the H.A.A. ticket office any time after it opens at 9 a.m. with one, two, three, or four bursar's cards. On presentation of these cards, they will be given an equal number of slips of paper, each bearing a number in the corner. Each slip allows for a ticket to be purchased at half price...
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...
...offices of TIME'S Letters department there is a spot known as the "Poet's Corner." Thousands of people every year find occasion and reason to write letters to TIME. A good many of these writers feel the urge to frame their inspired praise or protest in verse form. When such a verse letter comes in, the "Poet's Corner" replies in kind. The reply is usually written by Gwyneth Kahn, one of the eight writers in the Letters department, who quickly shifts from her normal prose technique to verse form on these occasions...
...tour in the Orient. Among the architectural landmarks on exhibition:¶A full-scale mock-up of the kind of house Wright designed at the turn of the century, which precisely forecast the flat-roofed ranch style of U.S. architecture at midcentury. It featured, among other things, a sunken corner hearth, floor-to-ceiling windows, and storage walls. ¶ Pictures of Tokyo's Imperial Hotel, which Wright built between 1916 and 1922. Flexibly constructed on a broad, floating base of stone, the hotel was one of the few buildings to survive Tokyo's great earthquake...