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Dates: during 1940-1949
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It would be a notably narrow skyscraper (72 ft. wide, 544 ft. high). "Greater total width would have been undesirable," the FORUM explained, because so many of the prospective tenants were high brass who would require honorific outside offices. There was a similar diplomatic reason for the Secretariat's...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Simple Geometry | 6/13/1949 | See Source »

This unexpected news threw the whole television industry into a nervous dither. Even Zenith Radio Corp., builders of the TV color receivers used in Philadelphia, disparaged its own work. Zenith's supercharged President Eugene F. McDonald Jr. shrugged off the Philadelphia experiment because it was transmitted over a telephone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Color Blind | 6/13/1949 | See Source »

The pilgrims had come from all over the world. Aloof, tight-lipped Bishop Giuseppe López Ortiz of Tuy in western Spain headed a delegation of 35 from the saint's own country. There were Germans, French, Italians, Filipinos, Irish, Canadians and one priest from India. In the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Missionary's Return | 6/13/1949 | See Source »

...only major source of discord among Baptists is something which began back in 1845. In that year, after a missionary society decision to employ no missionaries who owned slaves, the Baptists from the South walked out and formed their own denomination-the Southern Baptist Convention. In 1907 the Baptists north of the Mason-Dixon line united and called themselves the Northern Baptist Convention. Since then, all attempts at uniting the two have failed. At the Southern Baptist Convention's meeting in Oklahoma City last month, some delegates expressed alarm at reports of a forthcoming merger between the Northern Baptists...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Baptists at Work | 6/13/1949 | See Source »

Snakes' Chase. Even so, the critics could find nothing but good in Rudi Bing's reputation. He had learned the opera business from the ground up -in Vienna, in Berlin, and since 1934 in England. He was well aware that "the artistic and commercial ends of opera management...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: New Man for the Met | 6/13/1949 | See Source »

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