Word: interestingly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Florida. Whiteside. as a pompous, disputatious witness last week, admitted that he had been on National Airlines' side and had talked to Mack about the bitterly fought case. ¶In 1953 Whiteside gave Mack, then a member of the Florida Railroad and Public Utilities Commission, a one-sixth interest in an insurance agency. Later, under the firm name Stembler-Shelden, it sold an insurance policy (premium: $20,000) to the National Airlines' TV subsidiary. There were no written records of Mack's interest in the agency, said Whiteside. It was all done by "orally declared trust...
...subcommittee began boring in. What had he ever done to justify his share in the Stembler-Shelden Insurance Agency? Well, as a member of the Florida Railroad and Public Utilities Commission he had given the company a commission list of bus and truck carriers that might be interested in buying insurance. Did Mack not think it was at least indiscreet to accept an interest in Stembler-Shelden while a member of the Florida commission? The remarkable reply: "Well, I do not know. If Mr. Whiteside had given me $20,000 on which he paid the income tax, I think...
...overwhelming "cordiality of the people'' in The Netherlands' Antilles and Surinam, the princess, slated to become The Netherlands' third queen in a row, was gripped with a tinge of guilt. Wrote she: "How poignant is the contrast between people here and our own lack of interest...
...gewgaws. Thrown out by cubist artists who viewed such effulgent detail as a bad case of artistic warts, and banned by the stripped-down school of Bauhaus modern architects, the movement that once spread across Europe and to the U.S. had been dormant for decades. Now there is new interest in Art Nouveau-particularly among the strongest proponents of modern art and architecture...
Architecture Is Sculpture. Most dramatic example is the revival of interest in the buildings of Barcelona Architect Antoni Gaudi (TIME, Jan. 28, 1952), whose work in the early decades of the century would have rated him a place on the couch in midcentury. Precisely because Gaudi's work stands opposed to the main line of development taken by contemporary architecture, Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art this winter staged a two-month-long exhibit of his work (see color page), discovered that it had a popular, stimulating and controversial show. Said the museum's director of architecture...