Word: york
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...down." he commanded a mounted troop of Greene County Pleasure Riders. "Get back there or I'll kick you out. even if your name is Harrison Salisbury." he threatened, and as good as his word, he planted a sturdy Garst brogan on the leg of The New York Times's reporter-probably the mildest mannered of all the trespassers in the corn...
...first movie, The Hypnotic Eye, Producer Charles Bloch and Allied Artists' Pressagent Ted Bonnet were at the airport to meet his plane. One by one, the passengers filed down the ramp-but no Demara. The stewardess said that Ferdinand had indeed been on the New York-Hollywood flight, but he seemed to have disappeared. Just as Producer Bloch turned to walk away, a bulky man dressed like a pilot tapped him on the shoulder: "You looking for a guy named Demara?" "Yes," replied Bloch, "we sure are. Was he on your plane?" Off came the braid-encrusted cap. "Well...
...Finland, with its cantilevered decks, was a landmark in the new international style. Almost singlehanded he had made wood a "modern material," used it in a dazzling variety of ways-an undulating ceiling for a library in Viipuri, an undulating wall for the Finnish Pavilion at the 1939 New York World's Fair-and the tastemakers of the era all sat in Aalto's curved plywood chairs. But as the glass-and-steel revolution sparked by Mies van der Rohe swept into power after World War II, Alvar Aalto (rhymes with hall-toe) dropped out of sight, seemed...
...book publisher sat in his spacious home in Norman, Okla. and swirled a glass of brandy. "There are no more hicks in America," said Savoie Lottinville, 52, head of the University of Oklahoma Press. "The cultural face of the continent has changed from concentration in New York and San Francisco. A great lot of the best ideas come from localities far removed from those great cities...
...BOARD TRADING will increase to daily average of 4,500,000 shares by mid-1960s v. 3,000,000 today, predicts New York Stock Exchange President Keith Funston. Listed shares will increase from current 5.5 billion to 8.5 billion in 1960s...