Word: towering
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Your kindly and loving obit for Franklin P. Adams [April 4] evoked long-forgotten memories of his "Conning Tower" columns, which, secreted among the pages of William Wordsworth's output, helped a desperate group of college juniors get through an uninspired course in romantic poetry...
...Aluli: "I figured land was so scarce, why not subdivide the air?" His first 46-unit co-op apartment sold out seven hours after he advertised it, and he had enough investors left to finance a second 32-apartment coop. He went on to build the 200-room Oahuan Tower, the 60-room null and the 650-room Kalia off Waikiki Beach. His most ambitious project, the Tradewinds, is scheduled to become a $15 million, ten-building hotel complex with 1 ,000 apartments...
EUROPE'S TALLEST HOTEL will be built in London by Conrad N. Hilton and British Financier Charles Clore (TIME, June 15). The 530-room London Hilton will tower 27 stories above Mayfair, cost $17 million, open...
...vogues pass. Information Please, so successful on radio, died painfully in the new medium of TV. In a less leisurely age, "The Conning Tower," which had come to rest on the New York Post after tenures on the old New York World and the Herald Tribune, spoke to indifferent ears; in 1941 it ended for good...
...Beats Working, Strong Cigars and Lovely Women), who published his first work-a poem on Jack Dempsey and Babe Ruth (" . . . both sultans of swat; one hits where other people are, the other where they're not")-when he was eleven, in Columnist Franklin P. Adams' "Conning Tower"; of a heart attack, while writing about F.P.A.'s death (see PRESS) ; in Manhattan...