Word: philadelphia
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...forget to speak scornfully of the Victorian Age, there will be time for meekness when you try to better it." With that challenging epigraph borrowed from James M. (Peter Pan) Barrie, a Philadelphia artist named John Maass has written a book (The Gingerbread Age; Rinehart; $7.95) defending-of all things -American Victorian architecture. "This was no mean age," says Author Maass. "In every field of human endeavor, the mid-19th century was a time of frenetic activity and massive achievement. Is it true that the generation which constructed the transatlantic cable and the transcontinental railroad was unable to build...
Hide-&-Seek. Serving up his own bold "antidote to long-entrenched clichés" about Victorian monstrosity, Author Maass says that the American architecture of the period was "distinguished by its pleasurable fancy and exuberant color." Some of the public buildings, e.g., Philadelphia's City Hall, were not in good taste, "but they had something more important-CHARACTER." As for the houses, they provided more comfort, light and air, and certainly had more vigor and imagination than the thin, nakedly simple, conformist boxes of today. "The broken 'picturesque' exterior made the most of the effect of sunlight...
...papers) John Crosby. But in terms of his effect on which way the dial turns, he is the nation's most influential TV critic. Last week the Tulsa Tribune became the 96th newspaper (total circ. 15 million) to take his TV Key. Among other subscribers: the Chicago Tribune, Philadelphia Bulletin, Baltimore Sun, Los Angeles Herald & Express, Detroit Times, New York Journal-American. A survey of viewers in Kansas City, where TV Key runs in the Star, estimated recently that a Scheuer boost could fatten a show's Trendex rating by as much as nine points...
...benefit the public by stimulating competition, even though it might hurt the barge business. Already big Midwest refiners are seeking ways to use the proposed Chicago spur to their profit, while Sinclair, Texas and Gulf are talking about a similar products line to be constructed next year from outside Philadelphia to Cleveland. In addition, Texas Eastern got FPC permission last year to spend $74.7 million on a 422-mile line south from near Beaumont, which will soon bring in the first major imports of Mexican gas from across the border. By such hustle, Texas Eastern (gross 1956 sales: $175.2 million...
Never before has Caterpillar had so much tough competition to keep ahead of. General Motors acquired Euclid Road Machinery Co. in 1953 to apply its automobile know-how to road-building equipment, pioneered twin-engined crawlers and scrapers, quickly pushed itself into the big five among equipment manufacturers. Philadelphia's Baldwin-Lima-Hamilton, longtime locomotive manufacturer, switched to road-building equipment, this year expects its construction sales to top $70 million. Dozens of companies manufacturing everything from spinning machines to television towers are starting to make road-building equipment. Westinghouse Air Brake Co. bought the earth-moving division...