Word: talling
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...down to their front doors the "desirable illusion" of living in a two-story building. ¶ From Berlin's Ludwig Lemmer came the plans for a new Kaiser Friedrich Memorial Church, going up on the ruined foundations of the old Kaiser Wilhelm Church. Main feature: a tall, concrete spire (see cut), which Berliners are calling "The Spiked Helmet of God." ¶ On the nearby site of the former Reichstag, Berliners will also have a new Congress Hall, mainly financed by U.S. government funds. Designed by Cambridge (Mass.) Architect Hugh Stubbins, it will have seven conference halls, theater...
...American who did best at the stock market last week was a ten-year-old boy. Leonard Ross, 4 ft. 4 in. tall, of Tujunga, Cal., started reading books about far-off Wall Street at the age of seven, when his father, a certified public accountant, roused his interest in the market. Once Lenny had acquired some learning, it was plain that the way to make a killing without risking the capital he didn't have was to become a contestant on a television quiz show...
...Muses Bolle. once a skilled cigarmaker, now with "the homeless hands of the displaced craftsman: "If all people had lived in accordance with their collective fears, everyone would have become stationary, like a tree. In their heart of hearts, perhaps, most people would like to be plants, to be tall trees with eyes that could survey their surroundings and always be able to see and convince themselves that no one was coming, no one was going, no one could move; that all were lookout towers guarding the greatest security-that of absolute immobility." Martinson's tramps are mobile enough...
Jacques Tati is a tall, gangling Frenchman who moves like a badly-controlled marionette and possesses a real talent for taking pitfalls with the least possible grace. A veteran of the music halls, Tati practices a kind of humor which is not at all subtle, Gallic, or witty, but still enormously funny...
...only close match of the day, Dale Junta, playing in the number two spot, barely defeated Tom Kerr, 1-6, 6-4, 8-6. Kerr, a tall left-hander, is one of the most erratic players in New England and is capable of exceptional play when he is on his game...