Word: lloyds
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Though customarily the fountainhead of the sound and the fury, old (88) Architectitan Frank Lloyd Wright found himself on the receiving end of a scorcher from Leon Chatelain, president of the American Institute of Architects. Just returned from a globe-girdling trip, Architect Chatelain candidly assessed Tokyo's famed earthquake-proof Imperial Hotel, designed by Wright, and finished in 1922. The verdict: "One of the most horrible buildings I've ever been in. It is dark and dismal and looks grotesque...
...three-man jury-Lloyd Goodrich of the Whitney Museum, Henri Dorra of the Corcoran, Alfred Frankfurter of Art News-made a refreshingly sober choice for prizes. Top honor and $2,000 went to Edward Hopper for a calm, direct and powerful water color done at Pacific Palisades, Calif. Charles Sheeler took second prize and $1,000 with an architectural construction called Two Against the White, also inspired by a trip to California. The international flavor of the competition was served when England's John Piper took third prize and $750 for an impressionistic backyard-scape called Nailsworth, Gloucestershire. Honorable...
...significance is embedded in a passionate plea on behalf of miscegenation. Based on James Michener's bestselling switch on John Luther Long's love story, the picture tells the tale of Major Lloyd Gruver (Marlon Brando), an ace of the Korean war known as "the Air Force's pinup boy," and a Japanese pinup girl named Hana-ogi (Miiko Taka), the star of the Matsubayashi vaudeville troupe...
...advance agent for President Eisenhower, who arrives tomorrow, Dulles met with French Premier Felix Gaillard, French Foreign Minister Christian Pineau, British Foreign Secretary Selwyn Lloyd, and NATO's secretary general, Paul-Henri Speak...
...novel about two American veterans of the Korean war who marry Japanese girls. The Americans: Marlon Brando and Red Buttons. CJ ¶20th Century-Fox's Peyton Place -murder, suicide and assorted sex activities distilled from Grace Metalioús' bestselling novel. Stars: Lana Turner, Lloyd Nolan and flocks of New England townsfolk playing themselves...