Word: walls
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Every time we asked what it was all about, one of the models introduced herself and said she came from the Allen agency. Then she introduced a Manhattan and went to answer somebody else's questions. The caviar went well on Ritz Crackers, and the wall was covered with pictures of bulls. It was very puzzling, because they called the place "The Steer Room," but then we passed that off as New England modesty...
...ghostly cast: a wistfully mourning lady variously identified as 1) Arabella Waldegrave, daughter of a 17th century local lord, 2) an English nun whose weakness for a monk in a monastery, said to have occupied the rectory site, had led to her being sealed up alive in a wall, and 3) a French nun, Marie Lairre, who had renounced her vows to become the bride of a Waldegrave only to be strangled and buried in a cellar for her devotion...
...bridge commission built a mile-long span in 1950, half a mile from the river it was supposed to cross. Nature refused to move the river back, and neither could the engineers without congressional funds. The dry-land bridge grew into a joke to everyone but Wall Street's Cornelius Shields & Co. Shields, a veteran dealer in such issues, and famed yachtsman (TIME, July 27, 1953), headed the underwriting syndicate that sold the 3.75% bond issue (maturing in 1980), on the understanding that in 1952, its first year in operation, the bridge would take in $155,600. As past...
...West. ("I can remember when I was a child," Sol recalled wistfully, "and used to walk in the park and see the Century. That was class. I never expected to live there.") Yolaine's father, Murray Gross, who had made a fortune in brassieres, bought the furniture and wall-to-wall carpeting for their 4 ½room suite...
...prospect for the type of proxy fight that won him Niles-Bement-Pond (TIME, July 25). One of the top makers of diesel locomotives, generators and pumps, Fairbanks, Morse earned $2,478,198 in 1954 on sales of $108 million. But after Silberstein started moving in three weeks ago. Wall Streeters predicted that he would have a tough time overcoming the 30% stock control of the Morse family and management...