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That implacable leaper at conclusions, British Historian Arnold Toynbee, 72, now trains his erudition on a new target. He calls it "Madison Avenue"-by which he means not only U.S. advertising, but also the affluent society and much of U.S. business philosophy. In a remarkable, just published pamphlet-based on a speech delivered at Williamsburg, Va., in June-Professor Toynbee roundly condemns "Madison Avenue" as un-Christian and basically unAmerican...
...North Madison, Ohio, Rabbit Run Theater: William Gibson's Two for the Seesaw...
Into Polemics. As Phillips' band of conservatives moved onto the Wisconsin campus, outgoing N.S.A President Richard Rettig, a liberal Democrat, charged that they had "close financial contact" with adult conservatives. They bedded down in $12-a-day rooms at the Madison Inn, while other delegates stayed in dormitories...
...Wright designed at least four other sectarian churches in recent years: the Unitarian Meeting House at Madison, Wis., a Congregational church at Redding, Calif., Beth Sholom Synagogue at Elkins Park, Pa., and a Christian Science church for Bolinas, Calif...
...landmarks have had as many incarnations as Manhattan's Madison Square Garden. Converted from a rail depot by P. T. Barnum in 1873, the Garden in 1890 moved into new quarters that were designed by Stanford White, the great architect who was shot to death on its roof garden 16 years later by Millionaire Harry K. Thaw, who resented White's flirtation with Thaw's showgirl wife. In 1925 White's Garden was razed, and a new one erected across town from Madison Square on Eighth Avenue. Here, over the years, Joe Louis stiffened...