Word: tiled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Policemen asked the same question, soon discovered that Paul Harold Orgeron was an ex-convict and sometime tile layer, syphilitic, illiterate, and obsessed by dark fantasies of power and gods. He had been married, divorced, had remarried the same woman and been divorced again. He had cowed his daughter Zelda with abuse and with ugly accusations of promiscuity. He had fathered a son by his stepdaughter Betty Jean, who had run away in fear and shame. And in all the world-in some tormented way-he loved only the memory of Betty Jean and their son Dusty...
Woolworth's new store, set in modernistic decor (wall murals, blue-green mosaic tile) in the $28-million Ala Moana shopping center outside Honolulu (TIME, Aug. 10), is a far cry from the red-fronted, musty-smelling Main Street fixture known in hundreds of U.S. towns for its notions and knicknacks. It symbolizes the tremendous changes that have transformed a tradition-laden giant into one of the U.S.'s most experiment-minded retailers. Eighty years old this year, Woolworth's has grown from the tiny Pennsylvania "Great 5? Store" founded by Frank Winfield Woolworth into the world...
...Western Art architectural news of the first magnitude, since it reaches so hard for perfection. Based on sketches by France's owl-wise, owl-grouchy Le Corbusier, the museum was completed by three Japanese architects who had studied with the master in the 1930s. It uses concrete, tile, French glass and Philippine teakwood to create a more finished and refined atmosphere than Le Corbusier himself enjoys. Otherwise, it faithfully represents his solutions to the two great problems of museum architecture: display" and lighting...
...tile-floored office at the San Diego Union (circ. 88,646), Editor Herbert G. Klein, 41, last week cleared his desk for a leave of "indefinite" duration. Able, easy-eyed Herb Klein, a World War II Navy officer who rose out of the city room to the top editorial post on the pivotal paper of the 15-paper Copley Press, had received a summons from a friend in Washington: Richard Nixon. Next week Editor Klein will fly to Washington for his new job as special assistant to the Vice President...
...thing, the nine-man Senate Office Building Commission had ordered two bronze plaques (total cost: $5,000), emblazoned with commission members' names, to be placed at each entrance. Worse, Douglas was alarmed at a $150,000 appropriation for new carpeting to cover the $100,000 rubber tile flooring. The committee explained that Government girls kept slipping on the tiles (TIME, May 11), rounded up a group of supporters who were promptly labeled "carpet-backers." Countered Douglas in the Senate last week: How about the 600 office doors that would have to be removed and shaved down to allow free...