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Thanks for another adroit job of reporting in your Feb. 1 article, "Bible Disneyland." Do you suppose Messrs. Winecoff, Haley & Co. have considered the profitable possibilities of a Drive-the-Money-Changers-Out-of-the-Temple Gallery or the happy prospect of a Mt. Calvary Merry-Go-Round with the bloody Cross as its axis? Or would these features, perhaps, offend someone's "religious sensibilities...
Bible Storyland represents the vision mainly of Promoter Nat Winecoff, who cut his teeth at Disneyland, now humbly admits: "I guess the Lord just took me by the hand." The idea was originally suggested by a Roman Catholic priest who wanted an adjunct for his parish church, roughly in the $75,000 range. Winecoff outgrew the parish quickly. With private financing from such angels as Comedian Jack Haley and Donald F. Duncan, the parking-meter and Yo-Yo king, the project has now reached the $15 million stage. Promises Angel Haley: "Bible Storyland is not going to offend the sensibilities...
...distinguished photographer, Robert Capa, once moodily declared: "Most of the people in this country take pictures, and most of them take better ones than I do." Amateur pictures have made history, e.g., the sinking of the Vestris (1928), the explosion of the Hindenburg (1937), the Hotel Winecoff fire...
...recent disaster at the Winecoff Hotel in Atlanta [TIME, Dec. 16], when fire took the lives of 122 people, will, I sincerely hope, cause a nationwide drive to compel every hotel in the land to place a coil of stout rope in each & every room...
...outlets, shot down hallways with flamethrower force, began melting brass doorknobs, powdering plaster and licking at closed doors. Whenever a door was left open, death entered. At 3:50, when the 60-piece fire department started spindly ladders up along its scorching walls, the "fireproof," 33-year-old Winecoff, which, like most Atlanta hotels, has no outside fire escapes and no sprinkler system, was roaring like an open hearth...