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...walk down Prospect Street is the pleasantest excursion at Princeton. Down a broad, tree-pillared avenue, with great and handsome residences on either side, substantial edifices of stone and brick and leaded glass--the clubs. You can float down Prospect in a Fitzgeraldian dream, the wealth of accomplished architecture styles deluding you into the past. But up and around the corner, on a busier street, sets a building simple as reality, and as unavoidable as 1959. That is Prospect Club, its name a wistful mark of its exclusion. Prospect has always been the poor club, the wonk co-op club...

Author: By David M. Farquhar, | Title: Princeton's 'Facilities' Will Offer Long-Range Alternative to Clubs | 11/8/1958 | See Source »

...issue in the campaign, the Democrats say, is unemployment. The recession hit the state hard and Furcolo points out that his administration extended unemployment insurance benefits from 26 to 39 weeks and liberalized the vocational retraining program during the crisis. Furcolo mentions that his bill to float a $50 million bond issue to finance state projects and create jobs was killed by the Republican controlled Senate...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Democratic State in a Democratic Year It's Kennedy vs. Furcolo in Massachusetts | 10/29/1958 | See Source »

...face. Griffith renounces adultery, plans to marry the girl from back home, helps his ship subdue a German sub, and exposes a crooked executive officer, all at flank speed. Director Norman Taurog, whose recent efforts have been largely limited to Martin and Lewis comedies, heaves enough whisky-pourings to float the Coast Guard for a week, but viewers may find some of his other humorous inventions less familiar. He seems to think it is laugh-provoking to throw in a scene with Actress Farr tearfully explaining that the reason she cheats on her husband is that she is trying...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Oct. 13, 1958 | 10/13/1958 | See Source »

...motifs as forks and mustaches (a favorite theme he has found laughable ever since he watched German soldiers primping for the Kaiser's birthday). Discovering that the laws of chance underlie much in nature, Arp turned out a series of paste-ups produced by letting bits of paper float down upon a glue-coated board. Later he meticulously executed paper cutouts, was terribly upset when they began yellowing and spotting with age. He reacted by trying to incorporate time into his work by crumbling the paper in advance. "I realized one cannot achieve an absolute result. One must include...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Strange Fruit | 10/13/1958 | See Source »

...rounD) moon,how do you(rouNd er than roUnd)float; who lly &(rOunder than) go :ldenly( Round...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: the latest from e. e. cummings | 10/13/1958 | See Source »

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