Word: wall
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sheetless bed," Koestler writes The Invisible Writing--"enveloped by gloom and stench, counting the familiar stains on the wall which crushed bed-bugs leave behind, I heard the sound of a gramophone in the next room." It was Hughes, playing Sophie Tucker on his phonograph, not bothering to notice the dirt. While Koestler was disgusted by the filth and unsanitary living habits, and only briefly amused by a local purge trial, Hughes was enjoying lavish Turk hospitality and occasionally reading the voluminous notes Koestler took each day. What Koestler found most everywhere failed to meet his expectations, and Hughes, having...
What he saw in Madrid could only be wondered at--a girl practicing her piano the morning after a shell had passed through her house taking with it part of the living room wall and the top corner of the piano. "The will to live and laugh in this city of over a million people under fire, each person in constant danger, was to me a source of amazement." Langston Hughes is that kind of traveller who seeks after little, and, so, discovers much to wonder...
...President Clifford F. Hood and Steelworkers Union Chief David J. McDonald formally opened a new office building at the Homestead plant, constructed out of a new kind of cost-cutting, space-saving stainless steel. Said Big Steel's President Hood: "This is the first true stainless-steel curtain-wall office building ever built. It marks the kickoff by U.S. Steel into a brand new market that has a potential demand for 500,000 tons of steel sheets yearly...
HOWARD HUGHES has been buying up 20th Century-Fox stock, reportedly owns biggest individual block of stock, 300,000 out of 2,644,486 outstanding. Wall Street speculated that he may be trying to get control of the company since his investment is now bigger than the holdings of the next biggest stockholders, former Fox Production Head Darryl Zanuck (about 130,000 shares), Textileman Lester Martin (about 70,000), Fox President Spyros P. Skouras (about...
...shabbiest street in midtown Manhattan is the Avenue of the Americas, still known to Manhattanites by its old name, Sixth Avenue. Its hole-in-the-wall souvenir shops, cut-rate stores, bars, and delicatessens sprawl in an incongruous line between the luxury of Fifth Avenue and the tinsel of Broadway. But last week Sixth Avenue made an appointment for a beauty treatment. Real Estate Men Peter B. Ruffin and John Galbreath, who built Manhattan's 45-story new Socony Mobil Building (TIME, Oct. 1), announced plans for a 60-story, $50 million to $60 million stainless-steel-sheathed skyscraper...