Word: oakes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Oak Ridge, Tenn., to research a new yarn with an atomic science background, prolific Novelist Pearl (The Good Earth) Buck, 65, passed on a bit of literary advice to a young reporter: "Don't worry about spelling, punctuation, paragraphs. Get your story on paper. You can always find someone to correct your grammar...
...Oak Park, Mich...
Pile & Putter. While Lucy moves into the dressing room that Ginger Rogers once occupied as queen of RKO and keeps an eye on the commissary (she hates "bad studio food"), Desi will reign in an oak-and-leather throne room, surrounded by deep pile, a disappearing bar, and a putter alongside the desk. The new Hollywood tycoon is already awakening echoes of older ones. As workmen remodeled buildings for directors, producers and writers, he said: "Those cubbyholes were no good. Our offices are going to be twice that size. These are creative people, and creative people gotta have room...
...austere geometry, the building and plaza were finished off in rich materials. Siding the plaza are thick strips of green marble; inside, the elevator lobbies have travertine walls and terrazzo floors. In the Seagram offices most walls are covered with vinyl plastic, the executive suites with panels of English oak, the couch in the executive washroom with white plastic. Cracked Architecture Critic Henry Russell Hitchcock: "I've never seen more of less...
...Lives of great men all remind us friends .will make them less sublime." Thus most literary memoirs might be described, but James Joyce was lucky in his friends: at worst, they merely carved their initials on the giant oak of his literary reputation. He was even luckier in his late brother, Stanislaus. With candor, insight and a remarkable lack of rancor toward the man who arrogantly dubbed him "my whetstone," Stanislaus was content to draw what is easily the best portrait of his legendary brother as a young...