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...Superman and Joe Palooka. Today's children get a great amount of their TV entertainment from the old movies that enchanted their parents when they were moppets: most kid shows include a few reels of ancient Charlie Chase comedies or animated cartoons that date back to the 1920s. One cartoon series, Crusader Rabbit, was made especially...
...Communist Party Secretary Liu Shao-chi, the two men who are generally believed to stand next to Mao in true authority. Instead they chose 68-year-old Chu Teh, the onetime war lord who turned from a life of opium-smoking and concubine-collecting in the 1920s to serve brilliantly as a soldier for the Red cause. Chu's new post appeared, however, to be a quasi sinecure, a sort of recognition of his past services and comparative popularity...
Colors for Hours. Back in the 1920s Kiesler* pioneered both "floating" building (cantilevered out from masts, like suspension bridges) and "spiral" architecture (abolishing the division between floors) which Le Corbusier and Frank Lloyd Wright later developed. In the 1930s he deeply influenced today's theater design by blueprinting expandable stages and semicircular projection screens. In the 1940s he painted ideally simple theater sets for No Exit and The Magic Flute, began experimenting with abstract sculpture constructed "to relax inside." More recently he completed a project for a "continuous house" (egg-shaped), featuring a prismatic mechanism which would flood...
...room in Paris' Avenue Montaigne, the buyers broke into a storm of bravos. Soon the news was pouring out to a waiting world: "Christian Dior today dropped the waistline to the hips, flattened the bust and sent women's fashions back to the Jazz Age of the 1920s . . . Dior has abolished bosoms...
...partnership policy is a logical outgrowth of the changes in the private utility industry since the 1920s and 1930s. It was overloaded with promoters of watered stock and failed to supply more power where it was needed. Investment in new facilities from 1926-32 averaged only around $600 million a year. But, today, private utilities are expanding at a purposeful rate. Since 1950, more than $2 billion a year has been invested. Now that private-power men are willing to do their share in meeting power needs, the Administration thinks that they should be given a chance...