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Past v. Present. The designs for Rockefeller Center were too modern for most people. The conservatives set up a howl.. "I don't know what people expected," says Harrison. "They must have thought it was going to be one great square, a sort of Spanish plaza or a Place de la Concorde." But John D. Rockefeller Jr. never said a word. "I never read the papers when they print disturbing things about me or my people," he told his architects...
Movie theater owners immediately set up a howl of protest, but Hollywood, though usually thrown into a tizzy by any governmental move, remained surprisingly calm. Viewing the Justice Department action as more foolish than threatening, moviemen pointed out that the case might drag on through the courts for as long as ten years-long enough for Hollywood and TV to come to an understanding of their own. And, even if the Government should win, moviemen felt that their position was impregnable. Said an M-G-M spokesman: "Suppose the Government ordered you to sell Mutiny on the Bounty...
...obliged to notify Britain in advance. He expressed regret, however, that Washington had not informed London; it was all, he said, an administrative mixup. Reporters in London, briefed on the private session, all wrote of Acheson's "apology"; when Congressmen back home set up a howl, the State Department announced that Acheson had made an explanation, not an apology...
WHRB's weekly request show, "Barn Howl," will feature live performances by New England and Greater Boston hillbilly stars Sunday, April 20. The program will be designed to appeal to devotees of Western and Hillbilly music...
...news brought a howl of indignation from the rest of the Senate. Minor treaties are frequently waved through without bothering to call for a quorum or recording the vote, but never had such an important treaty slipped by with so little notice. Hastily, the Senate asked the President to return the treaty "for reconsideration." This time, the quorum bells would be sounded, the roll formally called, and the approval of Greece and Turkey in NATO recorded with proper ceremony...