Word: woodenness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Pumps & Profits. Years ago, a marina could be built for a few thousand dollars: a wooden-piling dock, a gas pump, a shack to sell beer and bait. Today's marina may cost as much as $10 million or more for a layout as complete as any inland shopping center. Run properly, with low dockage rates (anywhere from ½?to 6? per foot per day depending on season) and efficient service, it can produce a handsome profit for any businessman. Says one East Coast marinaman: "With good management, you can conservatively make a 20% return on your investment each...
...spiritual center of the influential Buddhist sect called Shingon-shu. Last week the shaven-pated monks of Shingon-shu climbed out of their black robes into a strange new garb called a baseball uniform, began pitching a stitched leather ball around and swinging at it with a wooden club called...
...have guessed, very little was to become of it. The Trojans called for 20 principal singers, two choruses, ten different sets, hunters on horseback, ships moving out of a harbor, naiads swimming in "a natural basin," a stream that becomes "a roaring waterfall" and, of course, a large wooden horse. With the creaky stage equipment of the 19th century, the giant workrivaling Wagner's marathons in sizecould not be performed in much less than seven hours. Berlioz himself heard it only in truncated form, and since his death it has never been given...
...dressed, tart-tongued Chinese career woman from Hong Kong brought Coates a pair of knitted socks after a business trip to Formosa. Asked the surprised Coates: "You knitted them in-in Taipei?" Quipped she sardonically: "Of course, dear. In Taipei everybody knits-nothing else to do." Watching the sacred wooden temples of Nara, 8th century capital of Japan, Author Coates senses the painstaking, frustrating drive towards perfectionism in the Japanese soul, virtually the only high civilization ever to record and preserve its architectural masterpieces in wood for centuries ("What were Florence and Venice when Nara was in its prime? Charlemagne...
Divorced. Jack Randolph Webb, 37, creator, director and star (as wooden-faced Sergeant Joe Friday) of radio and TV's Dragnet (TIME, March 15, 1954); by his second wife, Dorothy Towne, 27, blonde sometime actress; after two years of marriage (including three separations), no children; in Hollywood...