Word: hartfords
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Ironically, the reason Noguchi has not shown more often is that he is too busy. Long an architects' favorite, he has been swamped with commissions in recent years, including statues and gardens for Connecticut General's new offices near Hartford, Conn. (TIME color, Sept. 16, 1957) and the highly praised modern Japanese garden for Paris' new UNESCO headquarters. Not all commissions work out as planned. In his present exhibition, Noguchi displays a towering column...
...president before, as president to succeed Norman Hardy, who was named board chairman. ¶ Avard E. Fuller. 42, was named president and chief executive officer of Fuller Brush Co., to succeed his older brother. Alfred Howard Fuller, 46, who was killed in a sports-car accident. Born in Hartford, Conn., home of Fuller Brush, Avard Fuller started out to be an aeronautical engineer, decided in 1937 to join his father's company. He has been a door-to-door brush salesman but is best known for innovations in brushmaking machinery. Stout, balding Avard Fuller is a yachtsman...
Drastic steps may be necessary to restore economic health. Neither a subsidy nor a public utility, the U.S. daily press is free private enterprise, and owes its existence to the profit margin. "The question is," writes Hartford Courant Editor Herbert Brucker in the Saturday Review, "will the cost squeeze continue its ravages until even those newspapers that enjoy a monopoly can no longer survive?" At last week's A.N.P.A. convention, no one had the answer. And the number of newspapers kept going down: in the last eleven months competitive papers had sold out to leave Tampa, Grand Rapids...
...Edward D. Stone's museum for A. & P. Heir Huntington Hartford Jr., a ten-story concrete structure that will sit on an island in Manhattan's Columbus Circle. Turning his back on the glass-brick walls he used for Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art, Stone has designed a monumental façade of white marble, enriched by porphyry and verd antique marble medallions over the columns of the arcade. Admits Stone: "The resemblance to Venice, the Ca' d'Oro and Doges Palace, is probably unmistakable...
...event it was necessary for Jones to keep speed times accurate to tenths of miles per hour. The rally course began on Route 15 near Hartford, and led south through New Haven...