Word: maying
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...designer may never be found out until the day of judgment," Neutra goes on, "but if he supplies his victims with a daily round of tiny or coarse irritations, unwittingly or not, he's a menace. It's the little sore we overlook which later proves malignant. To be used to having a telephone pole in front of your view window does not make it wholesome. Bad acoustics can lead to shouting, and this calls forth an argumentative mood...
With the B.s, as with most topflight architects, the contest of modern v. traditional may be all over, with the verdict going to the modernists. The general public has still to be convinced. Architecturally, argue modernists like Neutra, the public has nothing to lose but its chains. But to millions of Americans the chains the modern architect removes are still among the comforts of life: the overstuffed warmth of their living rooms; bedrooms big enough to serve as separate castles-and a refuge from the rest of the family; space to putter and store things in attics and cellars; walls...
Divorced. Marriner Stoddard Eccles, 58, onetime Utah banker and industrialist, veteran New Dealer, since 1934 member of the Federal Reserve Board (and chairman from 1936 until President Truman demoted him last February); by May Campbell Eccles, 56, whom he met in Scotland during his Mormon missionary days; after 36 years of marriage, three children; in Ogden, Utah...
...Roberto (Paisan, Open City] Rossellini. Ingrid's husband, Swedish Dr. Peter Lindstrom, rushed to see the pair in Italy. Ingrid and Rossellini stopped work on a movie and went into a huddle with the doctor, but the three emerged with a statement that left the triangle standing (TIME, May 16). Last week, goaded by day-to-day newspaper reports about her affair with balding, 43-year-old Director Rossellini, Ingrid chose to step down off the pedestal under her own power...
...Window. Killers stalk a twelve-year-old witness (Bobby Driscoll) through a jungle of Manhattan tenements (TIME, May...