Word: derfully
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...committee worked on the collection, SOM was providing a setting that even the Medicis might have envied. The golden carpeting for the 17th floor executive offices came from Hong Kong. SOM designed tables to conform to the disciplined lines of the building; the chairs ranged from Mies van der Rohe's elegant Barcelona model to the stubby leather swivel chairs designed by Ward Bennett-who also advised on color and office appointments. Many of the textiles used are handwoven, come from as far away as Thailand...
...Rhondorf, where I can only get home by climbing up the path. It is more than 50 steps." Another advantage of the hillside location: the villa - although one of the finest in the whole Rhine Valley - was not appropriated by Occupation officers after World War II, "because," suspects der Alte, "they could not drive up to the door in their cars...
Control of Content. Historically, Germany was among the first television nations (a working set was demonstrated there in 1929), but the young industry got off on the wrong foot-Hitler's. As the first big-time TV executive, der Führer had thrice-weekly programs on the air by 1935, and public viewing rooms were set up throughout the nation, including sets with 180-in. screens. By 1938 home sets were ready for production. Hitler, foaming with estimates of the mass audiences he would reach, became the approximate father of viewer ratings. But with war needs, TV disappeared...
...that was labeled only "School of Francesco Cossa" brought $23,520. The same year a tiny Bellini showing Christ at the column went for $44,100. Last week at Sotheby's, a delicate little drawing of a wispy young woman by the 15th century Flemish Painter Hugo van der Goes made twice as much news. It was a study the master had made for a painting, possibly of St. Barbara. The painting has been lost; the study survived to fetch...
...Count me among the ground personnel," said Ernst Hans van der Beugel, 43, when he joined Holland's KLM airline two years ago as deputy president. Since then, Van der Beugel has conquered his nervousness about air travel by making 104 flights "in self-defense," but still insists that "subnormal mechanical intelligence" makes planes a mystery to him. Last week, more interested in his keen economic mind than his airworthiness, KLM moved ex-Civil Servant van der Beugel into the president's chair. Highflying KLM's first-quarter 1961 revenues were a record $36 million...