Word: skyscraperism
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The 16-story Cathay building, Singapore's only skyscraper, is aglow nightly with a Broadway-style electrically lighted advertisement of Esther Williams in The Duchess of Idaho. Less ornate cinemas run serial thrillers (the kind shown for U.S. kids on Saturday mornings), with all twelve episodes run together in...
Last week, after some early-season breathers, Kentucky faced its first big test from a University of Kansas team coached by Rupp's own onetime teacher, Phog Allen.* A record 13,000 fans filled Kentucky's new Memorial Coliseum to watch the duel between Kentucky's Spivey...
Both buildings had been designed by a distinguished international team of architects, headed by Wallace K. Harrison (who helped plan Rockefeller Center). When finished, the two would make a dramatic contrast, for while the Secretariat's skyscraper was high, thin arid rigid, the Assembly hall had the concave roof...
Though the two young leading players act with too much emotional energy, Side Street mostly fulfills its modest melo dramatic intentions. Its climax, an auto mobile chase near the Manhattan water front and in the deserted financial district on a Sunday morning, is sharpened by exciting location shots from high...
Prospects of a skyscraper city, the profitable place for a subway system, were thwarted from the start; the mud banks didn't have any rock base on which to construct high buildings. While stony Manhatten Island packs over 85,000 people to the square mile with more being squeezed in...