Word: hoods
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Stone landed on his feet, with a $100-a-week job designing interiors for the new Waldorf, including the romantic trellised ceiling of the Starlight Roof. Within two years he had moved over to the new Rockefeller Center, where in the presence of "the prophets," Architects Raymond Hood and Harvey Corbett of the Rockefeller Center team that included fast-rising young architect Wallace Harrison, Stone was put in charge of the working designs for Radio City Music Hall, then as now the world's largest movie palace (6,200 seats...
...Executive Editor Charles E. Green and-as Green put it-"wondered what the paper would think." Replied the editor: "Hell, do what's right." At week's end Defendant Press, an accountant by trade had been cleared of any rape charge, but he was in the Fort Hood stockade, still" facing trial on the first girl's charge thai he had forced her into sex acts. On the same day that it reported plans for Press': trial, the Statesman ran a Page One account of a speech by Editor Green arguing "the right of jurors...
...tailors along High Street. Bound in leather, handwritten on parchment and illustrated with swatches of material, their specifications are stored for the ages in the University Archives. One fiat of the new book: nylon fur is out. Sniffs Gentlemen's Tailor Venables: "Any fur on an academical hood ought to come from an indigenous animal...
...Robin Hood Fallacy. How to get away from this situation, which might be called the Robin Hood fallacy? K. & A.'s solution does not lie in cutting up larger slices of an ever-larger "economic pie." Instead, "the task of a truly capitalistic society is to broaden the ownership of the pie-making machinery and to build a vast number of new pie-making machines that will be owned by people who do not now own such machines...
Winter Set. In Albuquerque, Leslie F. White was fined $50 for careless driving after a patrolman testified that on the hood of White's car he found a snowman whose measurements were two feet high and two feet wide...