Word: tower
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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TIME, as you know, is written and edited in the TIME & LIFE Building in Rockefeller Center, New York City. That does not mean that TIME is edited in an "Ivory Tower"-as some people have suggested. TIME reaches out into the hamlets and byways of America, and some of you have been kind enough to write in and wonder...
...problems of returning G.I.s, the acute shortage of housing, the steel strikes, and the many other phases of current industrial strife. The world is watching to see how the U.S. handles these problems, and TIME is fully prepared to cover them-from the national, not the Ivory Tower, point of view...
Married. James Ramsay Ullman, 38, venturer and adventurer who wrote the current best-selling White Tower, produced four Broadway flops in one season (1936-37), then quit because "I like to eat"; and Elaine Heineberg Baron Luria, 27; he for the second time, she for the third; in Manhattan...
...cabarets, read Walt Whitman, and worked in the Quaker hospital where her daughter Lucy was born. "I would not bother with thee, Fey," said the Quaker woman doctor, "did I not know thee has glimpses of the Light within." But naughty Fey glimpsed nothing but Railroad Tycoon Simeon Tower, whom she married after divorcing Terry...
Soon "the silver basket in the vestibule of the Tower house contained the cards of Sylvester Bull, Templeton Snelling, and Ward McAllister, besides a hundred others." Mrs. Astor herself, dressed as Queen Elizabeth, attended the gorgeous Tower costume ball. Also present at the ball was rascally Terry, who had gate-crashed, disguised as a Mexican caballero. Simeon shot Terry dead. Cried little Lucy: "Why did papa hurt my real papa...