Word: rivers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...short engagement this spring in Florenz Ziegfeld's Midnight Frolic (TIME, March 4). He had been built into a cinema celebrity with the most expensive and intense advertising campaign ever invested in a foreign actor. In this talkie he pulls a little boy out of a French suicide-river so that he can sing to him. He is poor, penniless, a junkman, but he tells the little boy he is an antiquarian. That makes the audience cry. The little boy's mother is dead?she committed suicide?so Chevalier takes him to the junkshop. Later the junkman becomes the star...
Almost 40 years ago Bridge Builder Gustav Lindenthal strolled along the east bank of the Hudson, looked across the river to the Weehawken side. He could see blue sky and grey water and green trees, but his thoughts were not on the works of nature but on the works of man. Why not (thought he) build a bridge across the river? It was seven years since Engineer Roebling had finished bridging the East River with his famed Brooklyn Bridge. Why should not the Hudson be spanned as well? So Engineer Lindenthal thought of two high towers with long chains sweeping...
...many other bridges under which the waters east of Manhattan have flowed since that time, and tunnels, too, have been built both east and west. In 1896 the Williamsburg Bridge was begun; in 1901 the Queensboro and the Manhattan. But none of these bridges were over Builder Lindenthal's river, although, as city commissioner of bridges he redesigned the Williamsburg Bridge and aided in the construction of the others. Meanwhile Railroader Rea, having found bridging the Hudson an insoluble financial problem, turned his attention to tunnels, and for him Consulting Engineer Lindenthal worked on the building...
...still the Hudson was unbridged, and still the North River Bridge Co. was more a prospectus than a performance. Furthermore, the Pennsylvania R. R., now snugly located in Manhattan, could not well be expected to take interest in additional bridges. And Builder Lindenthal and his associates were growing old. Undiscouraged, however, he continued with his plans. After the conclusion of the War, he suggested that an admirable War Memorial would be a bridge across the Hudson, but this suggestion met with no great approval. Some six years ago, when even New York's City Fathers had begun to catch...
...Business School seems to be following the course of wisdom in limiting the number of the entering class for next year. Of course the present size of the facilities across the river directly necessitated the decision but there are other considerations which might well impose restriction on too rapid growth. Sound growth takes time as well as careful direction and the business of assembling a faculty of capable men cannot be carried out in a year or two. There must be time for seasoning and the consolidation of present gains before a program of continuous expansion may be looked...