Word: skyscraperism
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Away from their grey skyscraper office on Manhattan's teeming 4?nd Street last week, the editors of a thriving monthly magazine got ready for a weekend of work without a mutter of complaint. One editor was off to Newport, R.I. to sail his 58-ft. yawl Caribbee in...
The show makes plain the fact that for a man of his high standing Léger is notably primitive. The most recent oil in the exhibition is a hard, startling arabesque called The Builders (opposite). Painter Léger, 72, who finished the picture in 1950, says that in...
Call of the Wild. In Detroit, Skyscraper Window Washer Clarence Stayton got a divorce after testifying that his wife had insisted that they go to the North Woods to live, even though he doubted he could support her there.
What the fans had really come to see was top-seeded Seton Hall's fabulous Walter Dukes, the skyscraper (6 ft. 11 in.) Negro center who paced his team to a major-college record of 27 straight victories. Arrayed against Dukes & Co. was the sentimental underdog, St. John'...
In Nebraska, where political oratory is apt to be gusty, the memory of William Jennings Bryan, greatest and gustiest of Nebraska politicians, is revered by many people. It seemed quite proper, then, when the Bryan Memorial Commission produced a 13-ton, 8-ft. bronze likeness of the late Great Commoner...