Word: franked
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...from being European stooges, some of the Africans emerged from hard cross-examination (as the judge remarked at the end of the trial) as simple, frank and engaging men. Last week the court declared Mboya & Co. guilty of criminal libel, slapped each with a token ?75 fine, not enough to make martyrs of them. Outside the courthouse, where thousands of Bwana Tom's followers had demonstrated only a few days before, one native forlornly waved a placard saying EIGHT MILLION AFRICANS ON TRIAL, for the benefit of the small, halfhearted crowd-and the Nairobi police phlegmatically waited to quell...
...Portsmouth, N.H., a sea captain's porticoed house built in 1807 was converted into a gasoline station. In Buffalo, Frank Lloyd Wright's Larkin Building, one of the most influential structures in modern architecture, was razed to make room for a trucking-company parking lot. Louisiana's Greek Revival Belle Grove, one of the most beautiful of ante-bellum plantation mansions, was burned to the ground by vandals as it stood abandoned. Baltimore has less than half a dozen structures left of its rich pre-Revolutionary heritage. In all, more than a quarter...
...which Pittsburgh is the custodian." Status: besieged but still standing. ¶ Chicago's Auditorium Building, the first major work of Chicago Pioneers Adler and Sullivan, which served as the setting for Republican Candidate Benjamin Harrison's nomination for the presidency in 1888, and is ranked by Frank Lloyd Wright as "the greatest room for music and opera in the world-bar none." Closed as a theater since 1940. used for three years as a servicemen's bowling alley, the 4,200-seat house is now part of Roosevelt University, is empty, flaking and slowly deteriorating. Status: good...
...chain (261 stores). He succeeds C. G. Trammell, who resigned in March with two vice presidents in an effort to avert a proxy fight threatened by the Kress Foundation, which holds 42% of Kress stock (TIME, March 3). Cobb was picked for the job by RCA Executive Committee Chairman Frank M. Folson, who took over as chairman of the Kress executive committee after the foundation forced a change in Kress policy in an effort to halt slipping sales. Born in Auburn, Me., Cobb attended the University of Maine ('35), worked for Montgomery Ward as regional catalog-order manager before...
Landslide. In West Hollywood, Fla., voters elected a mayor, defeated on the same ballot a proposal to incorporate the town, with the result that Frank Polage is the new mayor of no place...