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TIME also carried some stories at the time about experiments with electrical transmission of pictures. The issue of June 2, 1924, reported: "In a Manhattan skyscraper on lower Broadway, an engineer pulled a switch. Simultaneously, two cylinders began to turn, one in New York and one in ... Cleveland. Two hundred...
The easy air of an old-fashioned family reunion surrounded the 58th floor of a Wall Street skyscraper last week. There, stockholders of Atlas Corp., at the first annual meeting ever held in Manhattan,† ate ham sandwiches from a nearby buffet.
New Design. To Feininger, each object he chose to paint-a ship gliding through the fog, a cathedral town or a Manhattan skyscraper-was nothing more than a theme. It was the space around it that gave it life and provided the harmony.
Coaches call him "the monster"; sport-writers call him "the beast." In politer sport circles, he is called the "Kansas Skyscraper." The man with all the nicknames is huge (6 ft. 9 in., 250 Ibs.) Clyde Lovellette, who last week galloped up & down basketball courts in the N.C.A.A. tournament with...
Died. Sherman Hoar Bowles,* 61, who parlayed an inherited newspaper (the Springfield, Mass. Republican) into a multimillion-dollar empire; of a heart attack; in Manhattan. Starting with the paper founded in 1824 by his great-grandfather, Bowles finally owned large slices of Bell Aircraft Co., Manhattan's Longchamps restaurant...