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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Lockwood finished his chateau in 1867, barely in time for the financial panic of 1873, which ruined him. Sold in 1876 to Manhattan Soft-Drink Magnate Charles D. Mathews, it remained in his family until 1938, when his maiden daughter died and the city took over. The mansion soon served as an untidy office-warren for several city agencies. Voting machines jammed two rooms, old schoolbooks cluttered the marble entrance hall, and the Italian suite was stacked with city records...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tradition: Rescued Monument | 11/23/1962 | See Source »

...President has followed a course that compares with the maiden voyage of the S.S. Titanic. It left port with a glittering credits list; on board were fabled scions of U.S. show business-Irving Berlin, Howard Lindsay, Russel Crouse, Leland Hayward, Joshua Logan. As it plowed through the murky theatrical waters of Boston and Washington, iceberg-cool critics put a sizable hole in its hull. Drifting into view on Broadway, Mr. President carried a trapped and talented crew that seemed to take comfort in huddling together at the finale to sing an Irving Berlin version of Nearer, My God, to Thee...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Shipwreck of State | 11/2/1962 | See Source »

...conscientiously on this genealogy. He cross-referenced, and was very thorough." But, she says, "I have no idea where the item about a Durie-Kennedy marriage came from. My father must have made a mistake." He was indeed slipshod in the paragraph in question. He spelled Durie's maiden name Malcom instead of Malcolm, reversed her first two marriages., and neglected to mention that for a decade before the publication of his genealogy she had been Mrs. Thomas Shevlin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: An American Genealogy | 9/28/1962 | See Source »

...down a runway and roared aloft. An hour later, when the plane set back down at Komaki, a waiting throng of businessmen and Japanese air force brass broke into exultant banzais. The YS 11, first Japanese-designed commercial transport to be built since World War II, had completed its maiden flight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Aviation: Reclaiming the Sky | 9/14/1962 | See Source »

Cleo from 5 to 7, acclaimed in France as "the most beautiful film ever made about Paris," is a curiously, spuriously brilliant attempt to contemporize the legend of Death and the Maiden...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Femmes Fatales | 9/14/1962 | See Source »

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