Word: towers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...France, Télévision Française transmits from atop the Eiffel Tower, and is housed in probably the most modern and best designed TV studio in the world. But French TV has been handicapped by one of those illogical conflicts common among the logical French. Manufacturers have refused to go into full-scale production until the government increases its program budget ($11,000 for all of 1948). The government refuses to telecast more programs until more people have sets. Result: fewer than 5,000 sets in all France. Programs include first-run movies, interviews, operas and Parisian...
...Union Square, New York City, looks like a run-down office building. For Painter Reginald Marsh it is an ivory tower, with its feet planted firmly in the Manhattan market place. Marsh, a retiring 50-year-old chunk of a man, spends whole days at his studio window on the top floor, surveys the square below through a telescope. The caved-in bums, bundled up news vendors and bumptious, pneumatic-looking shopgirls that catch his eye are swiftly translated into notebook sketches and filed away in a steel cabinet...
Connolly lists the other enemies that combine to destroy Mr. Shelleyblake- the pointing finger of international politics (which makes him ashamed to sit tight in an ivory tower), the fatal praise that he receives for socially conscious essays, the damning embarrassment of friends who once hymned his promise...
Harvard Club of Cineinnati, J. Gerard Heathcote, 1331 Carew Tower; Harvard Club of Cleveland, Richard Inglis, Jr. '33, 630 Bulkley Building; Harvard Club of Concord, Stephen P. Baldwin '43, 13 Lexington...
Harvard Club of Philadelphia, C. Walten Randall, Jr. '36, 2301 Packard Building, 15th and Chestnut sts,; Harvard Club of Rochester, Treadwell Ruml '39, 1927 Sibley Tower Building; Harvard Club of St. Louis, C. Ford Morrill '34, 1601 Railway Exchange Building...