Word: georgians
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Rich & Poor Alike. Today the tumbledown farmhouse has grown into a group of Georgian buildings clustered about a handsome Norman chapel. The original $300 investment has grown to more than $2,000,000. Instead of 18 boys, there are now 315. But the sons of rich & poor still share alike in the chores, while their parents work out with the school just how much tuition they can afford...
...architectural schools, in part at least because of Walter Gropius (TIME, Jan. 21). He was renowned as the founder of Germany's famed Bauhaus school, and youngsters for whom the words Gropius and Bauhaus meant crisp, challenging modernism followed him to Harvard. There, amid the pink & white Georgian of the Yard, he and his collaborators built a modern brick and glass graduate center. But for the most part, Gropius built little, was content to be a teacher, one of the three division chiefs in the School of Design, and a pervasive influence. Last month Harvard decided that rising costs...
...Georgian Dick Russell set forth on a 15-day invasion of the Midwest to try to demonstrate that "I am an American before I am a Southerner." At Omaha he said, "I have never been a sectional candidate," and plumped for high farm-price supports. Midwesterners liked his softspoken, courtly manners. "Too bad," said a party leader, "that he's not from some place like Ohio or Indiana...
...expansionist ends, Kirk alluded to Stalin's many outstanding accomplishments and said that he has a "strong sense of history." Although he is under pressure from ambitions military advisors and theorists. "I think he's too prudent for that." Kirk stated. "Besides, he's 72, and even for a Georgian, that...
Stanley's fellow delegates-both unionists and businessmen-told about much the same experiences: the unceasing flow of whisky, wine and Georgian champagne, hotel suites fitted with pianos, flowers and beautiful chambermaids. They were as naively fascinated with Russia's business offers as Stanley was with his steaks. Many swallowed the line that Stalin was just a go-getter eager for a little trade...