Word: edwards
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Since then, week after week, TIME has reported the facts and the meaning of events of lasting importance in politics, science, economics, religion and the arts. In the arts this week, TIME focuses on the worldwide works of Architect Edward D. Stone (see COVER), whose U.S. Pavilion will be the showcase for the U.S. at the Brussels World's Fair...
...Village school, boys were lined up for a pre-class contraband check. Among ruled-out items: knives, cigarettes, matches (combs-which make effective face-slashers with the teeth broken out-may be banned next). One student, 15-year-old Charles McDougle, was out of line, refused to obey Teacher Edward Carpenter's command to get back in. Then Carpenter put his hand on McDou-gle's shoulder, in what Principal Irving Boroff described later as "a brotherly, positive way." Student McDougle cried, "Nobody touches my clothes!", shoved Carpenter a little, swore a bit, then...
...Architect Edward Durell Stone, 56, and for the first time he was seeing, nearly completed, the building he had created. One of the profession's freest spirits and by general consensus the most versatile designer and draftsman of his generation, Ed Stone was a pioneer modernist. He early set his mark on such buildings as Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art, became one of the deftest interpreters of the International Style initiated by France's Le Corbusier and Germany's Bauhaus school. In recent years he revolted against the monotony of cityscapes composed of acres...
...sell. With a tighter economy, companies are also replacing marginal workers with more efficient hands. Los Angeles' Broadway-Hale Stores has cut employment 7% so far this year, and expects a 4.6% sales decrease. Yet by improving the work force and reducing overhead. President Edward W. Carter expects to keep profits steady...
...born Louise (hence, from a childish lisp. Ouida) Rame, in Bury St. Edmunds. Her father, a mysterious Frenchman, may or may not have been a spy for Louis Napoleon. As she grew up, she displayed a tough mind and an absurd imagination-something between Racine and Edward Lear, says Biographer Stirling. When she insisted on behaving like her own fictional characters (e.g., flinging an ivory cigar case from her opera box at the feet of an Italian tenor), it became clear that England was not for her nor she for England...