Word: lloyd
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Architect Frank Lloyd Wright, ensconced in Manhattan's Plaza Hotel, began to get things rolling last week for the building of his spiral-shaped Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum (TIME, Aug. 10). Sitting in his favorite suite in his favorite hotel, where he has been coming for 35 years, Wright busily dispatched lieutenants to make arrangements for a new Manhattan office he is setting up, admired an Oriental painting of marmosets he had just bought, talked to contractors about bids on the museum, and kept up a steady, easy flow of talk...
...What a joy!'' crooned the wife of Food Minister Gwilym Lloyd George,* as ration books were tossed into bonfires all over the nation. But 2,000,000 less experienced housewives, who had never before managed without ration books, were frankly baffled at the richness of the new territory that opened before them. TV screens worked overtime showing the subtle differences between top ribs and shell bones. Newspaper columnists turned epicure overnight, and at the Times Bookshop in Wigmore Street, the 93-year-old Mrs. Beeton's Cookbook, with its cautious presumption that eight pounds of steak should...
...Tory son of the late great Liberal Prime Minister David Lloyd George and brother of Megan Lloyd George, a former Liberal...
...Gorman graduated to Frank Lloyd Wright's "organic" architecture. He became a crusader for regional design, scorning European influences, concentrating on Mexican materials and forms that fitted Mexican tradition and environment. But in those days such ideas were against the temper of the times, and commissions were hard to get. So O'Gorman turned to painting, and developed in two directions at once: some of his canvases were meticulously realistic, others violently expressionistic. He enjoys his imaginative painting. But his conscience makes him prefer his realistic style because "it is easier to look at and live with...
...well in the Masters, got off fast with a field-leading 69. one under par. Next day he was far off the pace, with a 76. Sam Snead, great golfer and perennial money winner, still trying for his first Open title, was in trouble from the beginning. Gary Middlecoff, Lloyd Mangrum, Dick Mayer-usually reliable performers-stumbled and came to the halfway mark four strokes back...