Word: paged
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...subject matter they turned to the Apocryphal New Testament for scenes from the life of Mary. One of the best preserved panels (see color page) shows the child Mary installed as a handmaiden in the temple as a thanksgiving offering by her parents. According to the Apocryphal Book of James: "And Mary was in the temple of the Lord as a dove that is nurtured; and she received food from the hand of an angel." To portray Mary the artist used gentle modulations of beige, blue and gold, which achieve the soft tones of tempera painting. Little effort was made...
...stockholders the opportunity to buy $637 million in convertible debentures, the largest private financing ever undertaken. To handle the job, A.T. & T. had to set up a special division, bigger than many U.S. corporations. To every stockholder went a warrant,* a letter from the president, a 32-page prospectus and a stamped return envelope. The mailing weighed 100 tons, cost $120,000 in postage alone...
Charles (The Front Page) MacArthur, beamed proudly at the image of their adopted son James, 17, on a television set in her dressing room in the ANTA Theater. James won high praise for his TV acting debut in the role of a misunderstood youth on CBS-TV's hour-long dramatic show Climax...
...noisiest business baiters got worked up about the WOCs* (TIME. July 18 et seq.), Commerce Secretary Sinclair Weeks was working out a code of conduct to avoid conflict, or the appearance of conflict, between Government duties and private interests. Last week Secretary Weeks handed down his six-page code, warned his 45,700 employees that failure to observe it could cost them their jobs. Under his new rules, Commerce employees...
...made a deal with New York's Metropolitan Opera for Met cast recordings. Last week Columbia Records, one of the biggest major labels, lowered itself into the mail-order maelstrom, announced its own record club with a million-dollar advertising campaign. In a five-page letter to its dealers Columbia explained that the record clubs are offering "the tremendous inducements . . . heretofore unheard of royalty guarantees" to artists in an effort to lure them away from the big companies. The only way to meet this competition. Columbia decided, was to swing a club of its own, and it offered dealers...