Word: shores
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Strewn Shore. Liaolo Beach, where the convoys come when they can, was pockmarked with shell holes. At one end a battered LSM, its back broken by Communist artillery, lay dead in the shallow water. With bluffs above eroded by wind and shellfire, the area looked like a valley of the moon. You feel appallingly naked as you drive along this lonely shore-watched by the tense eyes of Nationalist soldiers dug into their caves and by Communist eyes, natural and radar, on the mainland only a few miles away. There is no cover here...
...still unfinished Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, in 18th place. Adler & Sullivan added St. Louis' 1890 Wainwright Building (eighth) and Chicago's 1889 Auditorium (13th). Ludwig Mies van der Rohe won tenth place with Manhattan's House of Seagram (TIME, March 3) and 24th with his Lake Shore Drive apartments in Chicago. Famed 19th century Architect Henry Hobson Richardson also rated two buildings: Boston's 1877 Trinity Church (14th) and Chicago's since-destroyed Marshall Field store (17th). The University of Virginia (eleventh) and Monticello (twelfth) scored for the 18th century's Architect Thomas Jefferson...
...Democrats, apparently riding the crest of the wave, headed for blind disaster on some still-distant shore? One Democrat who thinks so is Harvard Historian Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr., brain-truster and speechwriter for Adlai Stevenson through two campaigns. Modern Democratic bosses are deliberately ignoring a treasure of intellectual-liberal candidates in favor of "mediocre party hacks," Schlesinger writes in the New Republic. Case in point: Tammany's passing over of onetime Secretary of the Air Force Thomas K. Finletter in New York to hand the U.S. Senate nomination to District Attorney Frank Hogan, who "has hardly voiced...
...that NBC was burdened with new ideas: there was the sound of western gunfire, the brassy clangor of variety shows, a hint of "adult" comedy. All the old standbys were there-Dinah Shore, Tennessee Ernie Ford, Perry Como. The newest TV face turned out to be one of the oldest in show business: Ed Wynn, 71. In the preview, at least, he was involved in an embarrassingly corny act, plugging his own forthcoming dramatic series alongside a stripper, each of whose removable scanties carried an announcement for some NBC attraction...
...Robbins teamed up with an unknown composer named Leonard Bernstein to put together a strictly Stateside ballet about sailors on shore leave. When it opened, Fancy Free (later blown up into the smash musical On the Town) became one of the greatest ballet hits in history. After that Jerry almost always had a hit. His serious ballets (Age of Anxiety, The Cage, Afternoon of a Faun) are untarnished by time, and his dance interludes for musical shows-notably the monumental madness of the Mack Sennett sequence in High Button Shoes-revitalized Broadway ballet...