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...William Henry is a Memphis lawyer who succeeded Newton Minow, and echoes his "wasteland" criticism of TV, is still feeling...
...story on Builder Cortese and Architect Callister [June 19] is like a ray of hope to one bucking the no-architecture boys building the wasteland around us. Indeed, good architecture is good business. The public isn't as ignorant as they believe; it is just the lack of choice. Not many have been offered architecture...
...women are blondes. The country also lacks such other vital resources as coal, oil and fertile farmland. Like the other Scandinavian countries, Sweden must export to survive. In desolate Arctic wilderness lies Sweden's treasure, the greatest reserve of high-grade iron ore in all Europe. In this wasteland of rock and ice lies Kiruna, which claims to be the world's biggest city (11,000 sq. mi.) and exists to exploit the lode. Under floodlights in winter and the midnight sun in summer, its hardy miners and technicians work night and day to bring the treasure...
There, amid the grey agate wasteland of the stock tables, dwells one of journalism's newest specialists, the advertising columnist. He stalks a beat so narrow and unnewsworthy that most papers prefer to do without him entirely. Of the handful of such men regularly kept at work in Chicago, Los Angeles, Philadelphia, Denver, San Francisco and Detroit, only five get a daily airing. And four of these-Bart of the Times, Kaselow of the Tribune, Charles Sievert of the World-Telegram and Jack O'Dwyer of the Journal-American-appear in New York City,*where the Madison Avenue...
Harvard Square can be either a wasteland or a garden of Eden for those in search of fashion. Those who decide what to put out on the shelves for sale maintain they couldn't care less what Paris decrees, and a continuity prevails here from season to season. Nevertheless, this year as usual there are subtle changes. A recent looking spree corroborated this. It also confirmed the suspicion that the Square stocks much of the same trite, conservative clothing available everywhere, (though at prices often higher than any other place...