Word: starting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...suitable shop space. Having been evicted from its Dudley Hall shop room, as a result of a recent fire, the Club now has no place in which to prepare sets, lighting, and other necessary stage equipment. Lack of facilities in the past has repeatedly forced the Club to "start from the beginning" in getting together such equipment; and this, according to Club officials, has constituted an unnecessary financial waste...
...give her intensely lyric, free-flow paintings a recognizably personal stamp. Up to using anything from a paint pot to her foot to gain her effects, she occasionally relaxes by switching to a meticulous landscape or realistic self-portrait. Says Painter Frankenthaler of her abstract work, "I just start to see what happens. You want clues? There are no clues. No idea makes a picture good...
DUTY-FREE AIRPORT will open for intercontinental passengers at Amsterdam's Schiphol field, following the profitable pattern of Europe's first duty-free air terminal at Shannon (TIME, Aug. 27). Dutch port next month will start selling tax-free liquor, tobacco and candy, later add cameras, watches, perfume...
...future, thinks bustling Bob Six, Continental's chances can be bright indeed if it keeps expanding. Already approved by CAB is a Chicago-Los Angeles nonstop jet service due to start in mid-1959. Ahead lies pending approval for nonstop Dallas-San Francisco service. Even more ambitious is a possible interchange with Capital Airlines, creating a new coast-to-coast system nearly as big as any of the four big U.S. lines...
With the general's pretty daughter, the driver is more Panzer than Panza. Defeat puts the general behind bars, and his daughter and the driver in business. They start out as bootleggers, save enough to reopen a bombed-out manufacturing plant where they turn steel helmets into saucepans. Within a year they are beating plowshares back into steel helmets. The author's debatable but haunting notion that history may be repeating itself in postwar Germany is enhanced when the general is released and delivers an impassioned blood-and-iron speech at a reunion of his ex-comrades-inarms...