Word: downs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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In four years of hammer-&-tongs competition for players and grandstand customers, the old, established National Football League and the brash new All-America Football Conference had almost succeeded in beating each other unconscious. To outside pleas for a merger, each side replied through gritted teeth that the other'...
But Mrs. Logan's outcry raised echoes which were rumbling throughout the U.S. last week. In the Midwest, even individual TV stations joined the crusade. Walter J. Damm, general manager of Milwaukee's WTMJ-TV, which had already turned down NBC's Lights Out and CBS'...
While Actress Channing is a happily blown-up Lorelei, the script is a sadly watered-down Blondes; and the score is almost everywhere commonplace. Lorelei's less rapacious pal Dorothy (Yvonne Adair), after having all the life knocked out of her in the script, takes up a lot of...
Auctions are apt to produce some bargains as well as some fantastically high prices, but the "anonymous" Madonna and Child recently knocked down at a Manhattan auction for $1,200 seemed to be one of the biggest bargains in auction history.
Little if anything, reports ARCHITECTURAL FORUM in its current issue, out last week. Church architecture is in a rut, and has been for a generation. "Almost without exception," says the FORUM, "the houses of worship erected in this, country since 1920 could more appropriately have been built in England about...