Word: wrights
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Early in life," says Frank Lloyd Wright, "I had to choose between honest arrogance and hypocritical humility." Today, at 84. Architect Wright would never be accused of humble hypocrisy. But he is also revered, at home and abroad, as the world's greatest living architect. Last week the U.S. could take a long backward look at the array of Wright's achievements, expressed both in words and deeds...
...example. Leonard has made several visits to White Sands for TIME, to Wright Field, and to the Air Force's Department of Space Medicine near San Antonio, Texas. He first met Wernher von Braun. head of the former V-2 rocket project, for a TIME story in 1946 when Von Braun was brought to Fort Bliss, Texas as a civilian employee of the War Department. There was also new research which included hours spent browsing in Leonard's own extensive home library at Hastings-on-Hudson, more interviews with scientists, including members of both the American Rocket Society...
...Actress. Ruth Gordon's hit comedy about stagestruck adolescence; with Spencer Tracy. Teresa Wright, Jean Simmons (TIME...
...Actress. Ruth Gordon's hit comedy about stagestruck adolescence, with Spencer Tracy, Teresa Wright, Jean Simmons (TIME...
...center stage is 16-year-old Ruth herself, gracefully if a little lymphatically portrayed by Jean Simmons. All the dear child has in her head is the idea that she, too, can be a famous actress. She has told mother (excellently played by Teresa Wright) all about her ambition, but mother does not dare to tell father-a role in which Spencer Tracy does his most satisfying work of recent years...