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...impeccable; almost all the town's merchants kept their accounts in Don Manuel's bank, and public funds on deposit amounted to $250,000. Then, a month ago, a sign went up in the bank's window announcing that the place had been shut down. The roof fell in on Zapata. A court-appointed receiver turned up to examine the bank's books, discovered only $18,000 in cash assets, along with $424,000 in overdrawn accounts ($323,000 in the name of Don Manuel and his family). The bank's accounts were...
...Joker (Ajym; Lopert). A skylight opens. A young man's head pops out. "Hurry, darling, hurry!'' a woman gasps. "My husband is coming!" Jauntily the young man leaps to the roof, shoots his cuffs, leaps to the next roof, thumbs his nose at the raging cuckold, dances off into the dawn. The young man is Jean-Pierre Cassel, whose frantic antics in The Love Game (TIME. Nov. 28) made him overnight the Danny Kaye of the French New Wave, and instead of popping out of that skylight he should of stood in bed. The Love Game...
...landmarks have had as many incarnations as Manhattan's Madison Square Garden. Converted from a rail depot by P. T. Barnum in 1873, the Garden in 1890 moved into new quarters that were designed by Stanford White, the great architect who was shot to death on its roof garden 16 years later by Millionaire Harry K. Thaw, who resented White's flirtation with Thaw's showgirl wife. In 1925 White's Garden was razed, and a new one erected across town from Madison Square on Eighth Avenue. Here, over the years, Joe Louis stiffened...
...clearly at a time when it was fashionable to talk of the Russians as nothing more than earnest Socialists. As early as March 5, 1945, hard on the heels of the Yalta Conference, TIME published a prophetic "political fairy tale" by Chambers that was called "The Ghosts on the Roof," in which he accurately predicted a ruthless, imperialistic Russia about to launch an offensive to conquer the world. Chambers' concern with evil could also take other forms. In a fanciful and humorous article for LIFE, Chambers pictured the Devil as a sort of cosmic underground agent-an embodiment...
...embassy is in itself a triumph of architectural diplomacy-a subtle blending of Bauhaus-style innovation with local tradition. It is three stories high, the top two of which are supported by columns at the center and suspended from roof girders at the outside. The visible columns are sheathed in the same Pentelic marble used on the Parthenon, and in time they will take on the Parthenon's golden tint. A blue ceramic screen en closes the ground floor, and the whole structure is built around a square inner courtyard much as were the houses of ancient Athens, thus...