Word: designations
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...proud "hub of the universe." The hub has become a traffic block. To solve this problem, the circus (or circle) will be made into a rectangle, and the Edwardian buildings now surrounding it will be replaced by boxlike modern structures on which advertising signs will be part of the design, instead of being grafted on, as at present. The famed center statue of Eros, god of love, which makes the traffic go round, will still be there but no longer the center of things. Sentimentalists wonder whether the new, streamlined circus will still appeal to London's lonely lads...
...short, pert, alert woman who is one of the U.S.'s most successful businesswomen. Sally Victor, 54, is not.only the biggest fashion hatmaker (more than $500,000 a year) in the multimillion-dollar millinery business (1958 sales: $300 million), but she is a trend setter (along with such designers as Mr. John and Lilly Dache), the only milliner to win the Coty award, fashion world "Oscar." Her $55-to-$90 creations (up to $1,000 with fur or jewelry) soon reappear in pirated cheaper models; many a U.S. housewife will wear a Sally Victor design this Easter without knowing...
...graduate schools will increase tuition by $250 next fall, the Administration anounced yesterday. Rates in the School of Design and the Divinity School will rise to $1250 and $750, respectively...
There will also be a "proportional increase in financial aid to keep pace with the rise in tuition," according to Jose Luis Sert, Dean of the School of Design, and Douglas Horton, Dean of the Divinity School. At least one half of any increased income will probably be plowed back into financial...
...particular reasons" brought about the tuition rise, Norman T. Newton, Secretary of the School of Design, explained. "It is simply a matter of rising costs." The tuition increase will affect the 219 students in the School of Design and the 242 in the Divinity School...