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Just off Michigan Avenue in Chicago, workmen fixed an American flag to a steel girder, then signaled to a crane operator atop a 41-story building skeleton. While thousands of sidewalk superintendents looked on, the girder swiftly rose to the top (see cut), where it was fastened into place, "topping...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STATE OF BUSINESS: Men at Work | 11/29/1954 | See Source »

Within earshot of the honking Broadway traffic amid skyscraper like dormitories, the Columbia student has listened to respected lecturers and continued to pursue his academic life while the Bicentennial office in Low Memorial Library planned ways to unite the world in a reaffirmation of the ideal of freedom of knowledge...

Author: By John J. Iselin, | Title: Columbia: Bicentennial on Broadway | 10/16/1954 | See Source »

ON THE PLAZA. It was built by "the Astors, Astorists, Astorites, the Vanderbilts, Plasterbilts and Whoeverbilts, who wanted a place to dress up and parade and see themselves in the great mirrors. So they sent for the finest master of the German Renaissance style, Henry Hardenbergh, and he did this...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: The Wright Word | 8/2/1954 | See Source »

Enclosed was a Winter Schedule of Radio Moscow's "North American Service" and a picture postcard showing a giant skyscraper.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Senior Politely Questions Moscow Radio, Does Better Than Diplomats | 3/5/1954 | See Source »

The new paintings were markedly more abstract than his earlier work. There was an architectural quality about most of them, expressed in long, vertical-lined backgrounds that gave a skyscraper dimension to his compositions. In Janitor, one of the show's best items, Zerbe set an old man with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Mixmaster | 2/15/1954 | See Source »

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