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Projects in Hand. His missions downtown accomplished, J.D.R. Jr. was driven seven miles back along state Route 3 in his Cadillac limousine to The Eyrie, his gabled, secluded 50-room summer home on a wooded granite ridge 500 yds. back from the slate-grey Atlantic. From the car, his keen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HEROES: The Good Man | 9/24/1956 | See Source »

Start with No. Collins concentrated on high-precision, lightweight amateur radio equipment, soon branched into the growing market of airborne communications. The airlines and the Air Force came to know Art Collins as a bold researcher. In 1937, for example, the Federal Communications Commission had a rule limiting aircraft radio...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CORPORATIONS: Genius at Work | 9/24/1956 | See Source »

For those grown fond of the din, the 1956 Republican National Convention may well have seemed dull, and, compared to the Democratic meeting (or past G.O.P. conventions), it was. There were no fights, no cliff-hanging situations. With hardly a discordant tock to its tick, it ran off with multi...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATION: The Turn to the Future | 9/3/1956 | See Source »

The audience received this morsel with mixed feelings. Said one listener: "I would have preferred any overture to a selection of Irish airs which I already know by heart." Other program items: Dukas' The Sorcerer's Apprentice, Brahms's Second Symphony. At the end, the orchestra and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Boston to Cork | 9/3/1956 | See Source »

The star of the film was clearly the chorus; and the whole production seemed to be organized around the chorus as a focal core. They sang beautifully together and were right on pitch. Violet Teass wrote the fine choral chants. And Henry Hallstrom's extensive musical score, played by 21...

Author: By Caldwell Titcomb, | Title: Aeschylus' "Oresteia" | 8/16/1956 | See Source »

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