Word: offs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Draw a Blank. In East St. Louis, thieves broke into a high school, made off with 28 typewriters with no letters on the keys.
"Technical Dam-Burst." Taking time out this week, Gropius will go to New Orleans to receive the Gold Medal of the American Institute of Architects, the profession's highest award, given in the past to such men as Louis Henri Sullivan and Frank Lloyd Wright. It will also give...
Count Down. In Memphis, the Dixie Finance Co. called off a coin-guessing contest after someone stole the container of coins.
Such coin counting has spawned sincere flattery: imitation Disneylands are shooting up across the country. The best are the brainchildren of drawling, blunt-talking Texan C. V. Wood, 38, a onetime industrial engineer whose survey on Disneyland's prospects so impressed the master that he was invited in to...
Burlesque Boss Harold Minsky has no prejudice against home-grown talent, but at Las Vegas' Dunes Hotel the foreign-born element in his chorus line is the spice of the show ("People enjoy talking to them"). So last month Minsky* took off on a recruiting trip to Europe, returned...