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Thus, in 1853, English Critic John Ruskin lectured an Edinburgh audience. The popular concept that the roof is the very essence of architecture became so deeply ingrained that Louis Sullivan, Chicago's famed skyscraper builder, felt it necessary to crown his tall buildings with huge, floriated lids. Frank Lloyd...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: The Bold Roofs | 4/4/1960 | See Source »

Paper Cup. From the skyscraper hotels and high-life restaurants of Miami Beach to country schools and community centers back in "the 'Glades," adults and children lined up from morning until night. It was all free. New York's Lederle Laboratories donated the vaccine. Physicians, nurses, and a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: One-Swallow Vaccine | 2/29/1960 | See Source »

* Columnist Walter Winchell reports that Zeckendorf and his son were riding through Manhattan when William Jr. pointed to a skyscraper and said, "Dad, I hear that building can be bought for $50 million." "Yes," replied Zeckendorf, "but they want $50,000 cash."

Author: /time Magazine | Title: REAL ESTATE: Curtains for the Roxy | 2/29/1960 | See Source »

The spectacular individual success stories are not about economic giants but about small firms and energetic men, including European immigrants (more than 20% of the 1,900,000 postwar "new Canadians" have settled in the horseshoe). When he left Italy nine years ago, Carpenter Alfonso Frisina had little money and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CANADA: An Ongoing Process | 2/22/1960 | See Source »

"There is plenty of room," says Sabbá, and more men are moving into it. Belém-born Isaac Benzecry is processing alligator hides, distilling rosewood (for oils used in cosmetics), curing furs (ocelot, jaguar, otter) and skins (water hog, wild boar, deer). Onetime Belém Fruit Peddler...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE RIUER SEN: Men and Medicine Move-ln on the Amazon | 11/23/1959 | See Source »

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