Word: monumental
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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That crusade began for Charles Rhyne last summer when he was installed in the A.B.A.'s presidency at the 80th anniversary convention in London. On Runnymede's historic meadow, Rhyne dedicated the A.B.A.'s monument in commemoration of the sealing of Magna Carta. In Westminster Hall, Chief Justice Earl Warren and then Attorney General Herbert Brownell of the U.S., Lord Kilmuir, Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain, and the lawyers of two continents joined in a session that was, in itself, one of the great landmarks in the history of law (TIME...
...fashioned dream of providing both "bread and roses" for their workers. To house Kohler employees, the company built on the outskirts of Sheboygan a 500-house garden city, with its own schools and recreation facilities. With its handsome, well-built red brick houses and patches of landscaped greenery, this monument to paternalism, incorporated as the Village of Kohler, may rank as the world's most attractive company town...
Built at an estimated cost of $35 million, the Seagram monument is set back on a twin-fountained, granite and marble plaza that serves as its pedestal. By day it is a soaring column the color of an old cannon; by night it is a giant, glowing shaft punctuating the Manhattan skyline (see color page). It is the definitive statement of what a skyscraper can be by the architect whom most purists hail as the master of glass-and-steel design: Chicago's German-born Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, 71 (TIME, June...
...circulation and advertising, Jesse Jones's Chronicle had long towered over its rivals as commandingly as Jones's San Jacinto Monument* bestrides its battlefield. For the first time in more than 20 years, the Post (circ. 213,198) last October inched ahead of the windy, lethargic Chronicle (212.641,) in weekday circulation (though the Chronicle still has a strapping 14,000 Sunday lead...
...world's tallest (570 ft.) stone monument, it was copied from a sketch in which Entrepreneur Jones combined his two favorite memorials: the Lincoln and Washington monuments in Washington...