Word: linens
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...James A. Linen...
...princely style. To oversee the construction of his villas (as many as four going up at the same time), Palladio floated leisurely up and down the Brenta on a splendid, gilded barge, equipped with a studio for his ten to twelve apprentices, shaded by a yellow-and-black linen awning. The villas that resulted won in later years the admiration of English Architects Inigo Jones, Sir Christopher Wren and Lord Burlington, as well as American Thomas Jefferson, who used Palladio designs as prototypes for his own Monticello and his master plan for the University of Virginia...
...hundred miles northwest of overcrowded Rio de Janeiro, in airy hills 4.000 ft. high on the edge of Brazil's vast jungles, forty city planners sat at a dinner table spread with snowy linen, and one of them recited an impromptu toast to progress in building Brazil's new capital. A year before, when they landed at the site, they found just one adobe hut. There now, nearly complete, stands a six-story hotel. 500 houses, and famed Architect Oscar Niemeyer's flowing, two-story Presidential Palace, resting on 20 arched concrete columns. Chugging ahead night...
Died. James Alexander Linen Jr., 73, chairman of the board and onetime (1937-55) president of International Correspondence Schools World Ltd., Inc. (a vast learn-by-mail enterprise with more than a million alumni in 59 nations), Scranton, Pa. civic leader, father of TIME's Publisher James A. Linen III; of a heart attack, in Waverly...
...Many do without a telephone because they cannot pay the bill. One wife, in order to buy a washing machine which would enable her to take in laundry, needed $50 in advance. Four Harvard undergraduates agreed to advance her the money on the condition that she clean their dirty linen for the entire year. A contract was signed...