Word: parkes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...after a two-year rise from copyboy to overnight editor of Chicago's hardboiled, fast-moving City News Bureau,* brash, blond Bruce Sagan (rhymes with pagan) paid $2,500 for a withered weekly called the Hyde Park Herald. Breathing life into the body and new fire into the Southside community. Publisher Sagant mounted a hard-hitting campaign for slum clearance, coupled picture spreads of slum dwellings (including owners' names) with authoritative how-to-do-it articles on redevelopment. Outcome: Hyde Park qualified for federal aid as the Midwest's first and biggest project of this type approved...
...Gorky Park along the Moskva River in the heart of Moscow, the first U.S. trade fair ever held in Russia will open its doors this summer. The Soviet government is eager to cooperate; it has already announced the fair in newspapers and magazines, promised to plug it over radio and TV. To handle research, publicity and contracts for the fair, the first commercial office opened in the Soviet Union by any Western country has been set up by America Abroad Associates in Moscow. Yet the U.S. Government is far from happy about this adventure into areas long tightly closed...
Neuburger hopes to rent 250.000 sq. ft. of space in Gorky Park to private U.S. firms, at $6 per sq. ft. for building space and $3 for open space. Though firms will be allowed to exhibit whatever they please, the fair's directors stress audience-participation exhibits and displays that demonstrate the U.S. way of life. Neuburger plans to have a U.S. supermarket, beauty shows, jiffy shoe repairing shops for Russian visitors; he also hopes to bring some U.S. artists to Moscow to exhibit, get 50 university professors to lecture at the fair. Says...
...summer was the hit of Paris (TIME, July 1). The painting: Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres' masterful portrait, La Princesse de Broglie (see cut), for more than 100 years the possession of France's Dues de Broglie, now hanging in the dining room of Robert Lehman's Park Avenue apartment. Estimated price...
...came in person to bargain with her. He promised to repay all the money and drew up the draft of a document creating her Comtesse de Beauregard-she had bought the huge chateau and park near Paris bearing that name. "The duel over," says Author Maurois, "there was a reconciliation upon the field...