Word: lloyd
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...owners; now watermen from Ocean City poked about the hulk, prying at loose fittings, taking everything movable that seemed salable. The two newcomers watched patiently until the others went ashore at nightfall. From that point on, no one was allowed on board the African Queen without their permission-and Lloyd Deir, 45, and Belden Little, 36, enforced the rule with their shotguns. Their purpose: to float the African Queen, claim her under maritime salvage laws and sell her as scrap for, they hoped, more than...
...construction outfit. They heard of the wreck of the African Queen, decided to go after her, quit their jobs, brought in two more partners who put up money, and hired four helpers, who joined them later on the African Queen. Due mostly to the tremendous persistence and ingenuity of Lloyd Deir, they brought the African Queen to port-but only after six dramatic months of adventure...
...Gonna Get Married (Lloyd Price; ABC-Paramount). The problem here is a lad who "may be too young to get married, but not too young to hide an achin' heart." Mother and son fight it out to a rocking draw just short of the altar...
...Seagram Building represents the consummation of the classicism of Mies Van Der Rohe. Rarely has such refinement, such tastefulness and simplicity been applied to what Frank Lloyd Wright derisively labeled, the "cereal box" style of architecture. Yet "cereal box" or no, most important modern buildings as well as those throughout the ages have used the rectangular solid as their basic form...
...this reviewer, much of Frank Lloyd Wright's work has disquieting touches of fussy decorativism and makes obsessive use of the forms of nature, reminiscent of the mannered Art Nouveau school. It is in the Bear Run, Pennsylvania, home of Edgar Kaufmann, made in 1938, that Wright scores a complete triumph, a building that is livable, reserved, elegant, yet amazingly natural...