Word: skyscraperism
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Peachtree Street was never before like this. Handsome stone-and-glass office and apartment buildings are sprouting all over Atlanta. In the past two years workmen put the finishing touches on such major new downtown structures as a 22-story, $12 million Atlanta Merchandise Mart, and a 31-story headquarters...
Chief developer of the retirement cities is a 6-ft. 4-in., 63-year-old maelstrom of restless energy named Delbert Eugene Webb (see box). Construction is Del Webb's business-construction of anything and everything from a silo to a skyscraper-and in 1955, casting about for ways...
The Wild Beasts. The cure does not come easily. Graduated and living in New York, he wavers between thoughts of suicide and huge, gusty waves of euphoria in which he imagines playing Beethoven's Ninth Symphony at the top of an empty skyscraper "with all New York about 600...
The famous examples of Lloyd's antics on the outside of a skyscraper is also fantastic to watch. Trapped in a mail sack which is resting dangerously on a painter's scaffold being pulled non-chalantly up the side of the building, Lloyd teeters back and forth, causing the audience...
Died. Erwin Service Wolfson, 60, co-founder and top executive of Diesel Construction Co., an Ohio pantsmaker's son who became a prime mover in the skyscraper boom that has altered Manhattan's skyline, topped off his career as contractor and investor with the world's largest...