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Dates: during 1960-1969
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VIRGINIA BAKER GILBERT...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jan. 31, 1964 | 1/31/1964 | See Source »

...call itself (with 102 floors, 1,248 ft.) the tallest building in the world,* will join such other has-beens as the Singer, the Woolworth and the Chrysler buildings. And one of Manhattan's beaux-arts monuments, the splendid old U.S. Customs House, designed in 1901 by Cass Gilbert, will lose its identity-and possibly its existence-as all customs operations are shifted to the World Trade Center. Progress in New York moves onward and 1,3531 ft. upward...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Onward & Upward | 1/24/1964 | See Source »

...trouble is that moderate monoxide poisoning produces symptoms so confusing that they baffle the most ingenious and elaborate diagnostic methods. In the New England Journal of Medicine, Yale University Neurologists Gordon J. Gilbert and Gilbert H. Glaser reported the particularly bizarre case of a New Haven traffic cop who sometimes seemed to be "overly jocular and playful" but more often was true to his trade-nervous and irritable. Nearly every afternoon, after several hours on duty, he felt dizzy and sleepy and got the staggers. Sometimes he became unconscious for 15 minutes to 1½ hours...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Toxicology: Monoxide in Small Doses | 1/17/1964 | See Source »

...fact, the Foreign Office was a Whitehall elephant almost from the day it opened in 1868. It was modeled on a Venetian palazzo, after Architect Sir Gilbert Scott's original Gothic façade was indignantly rejected by Prime Minister Lord Palmerston as "admirable for a monastery." (It later made an admirable Gothic railway station.) From a pompous exterior decked with 63 allegorical statues to regal suites designed more for la dolce vita than diplomacy, the building was so wildly inappropriate that within ten years after completion it was roundly condemned by a parliamentary commission...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Great Britain: A Whitehall Elephant | 1/10/1964 | See Source »

Died. Perry Gilbert Eddy Miller, 58, professor of American literature at Harvard since 1946, chronicler of American intellectual history; of acute pancreatitis; in Cambridge. Miller's best-known work was The New England Mind, in which he scouted the view of the Puritan forefathers as bluenose hypocrites, argued that their reconciliation of religious convictions with separation of church and state became a model for subsequent U.S. development of free education, religious tolerance and economic liberalism...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Dec. 20, 1963 | 12/20/1963 | See Source »

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