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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...From that time on, Ed Stone was recognized as the young designer who had come closest to mastering the modern vocabulary. Stone needed all his talent just to survive the long winter of architecture during the Depression. One after another. Stone's contemporaries closed shop. Those who survived often rushed from office to office to hover over a friend's drafting boards, giving prospective clients the impression of an office packed with busy draftsmen...
...Stone. His marriage to Orlean Vandiver of Montgomery, Ala., whom he had met in Venice during his student days, was drifting onto the rocks. Increasingly, Stone's life centered over his drafting board. With his fellow architects he would rehash architectural problems over martini-laced lunches that often rolled until dinner, sometimes ended only when mid-Manhattan restaurants closed...
...York Times's chief congressional correspondent, slim, well-tailored William S. (for Smith) White, 50, has long been regarded by fellow newsmen as the most astute chronicler of the U.S. Senate-and by strangers is often taken for one of its members. Along with his polished daily reporting, Bill White has found time to write two successful books: 1957 Citadel, an admirer's analysis of the Senate, and The Taft Story, which won him a 1955 Pulitzer Prize in Letters. Last week Reporter White quit the Times after 13 years to fill a rare opening in the ranks...
...entire month, the lowest level in history. Although gasoline stocks topped those of 1957, heavy crude oil and heating-oil stocks were coming down to size. Last week Gulf Oil Corp., Phillips Petroleum Co., Texas Co., Tidewater Oil Co. and Shell Oil Co. all reported record sales-and often record profitssfor 1957. Almost without exception they expected a good year in 1958. Said Cities Service President Burl S. Watson: "We have our problems, but every company is forecasting still another increase in demand this year...
...rattle. They gave it some of the smoothest Technicolor that has ever creamed a moviegoer's eyeballs; but then, gripped by the fear that all this would be too subtle, they decided to smear "mood" all over the big scenes by shooting them through filters. Result: too often the actors are tinted egg yellow, turtle green-and sometimes phosphorescent fuchsia...