Word: oddness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...odd newspaper that landed on Portland, Ore. doorsteps one morning last week. One story read from right to left, the top and bottom decks of a headline were transposed, the sports-page date was upside down, and the logotype read: THE OREGONIAN OREGON JOURNAL. But what was most surprising of all about the paper was that it appeared at all. It was published jointly by Portland's frequently feuding morning Oregonian (circ. 242,035) and evening Journal (circ. 187,588)-and union employees of both papers were on strike...
Commissioned last year to design two new colleges for Yale University, Saarinen (Yale '34) quickly discovered that the standard vernacular of modern architecture would not do. First, the site was odd and irregular. Furthermore, the new colleges would have to exist cheek by jowl with two of Yale's most determinedly pseudo-Gothic structures: the ten-story Payne Whitney Gymnasium and the Yale Graduate School. Talking with students, Saarinen discovered that undergraduates want their rooms to be as individual as possible, decided that the rooms should be "as random as those in an old inn rather than...
...merger went through as planned, will go into effect in May 1961 if ratified by the local churches before next May. But just before the 1,000-odd delegates packed up to go home, a third version was voted. Jesus was still out, but "in the Judaeo-Christian heritage" (instead of "in their essence...
Died. I.A.R. (Ida Alexa Ross) Wylie, 74, prolific British writer of novels (17), short stories (200-odd), and a charming autobiography titled My Life with George, in which George is her subconscious; of a coronary thrombosis; in Princeton...
Even if the industry goes back in operation rapidly, the effects of the strike on the U.S. economy will be felt for many weeks to come. Though there are still some 4,500,000 tons of finished steel in inventories in the U.S., much of it is in odd sizes. It will take at least four weeks before the pipelines begin to fill with new finished steel products, five to six weeks before completely balanced deliveries are resumed. The press of demand is so great that the steel companies will fill back orders as they appear on the books...