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Pressure for a theatre began to build again after the Second World War. Committees professors, reports, and trials all advocated building a home burgeoning theatre activities. Little opened until the advent of Pusey in Unlike Lowell and Conant, the new president actively desired a theatre and backed fund-raising for the His encouragement bore fruit June 1957, when Loeb's gift of $1 was announced...
...this week's cover story on Sherman Fairchild's interests and other growth companies, TIME revisits some old friends. As early as 1936, we reported on a young inventor named Edwin H. Land and his polarized lens; in 1947 we noted the advent of Polaroid's remarkable 60-second camera before it was marketed. A $35 investment in Polaroid that year would now have grown to $862. Texas Instruments, now selling at 214¾, was the subject of an April 1957 story when it sold at about 20. A June 1954 story on Ampex pointed out that...
John Fitzgerald Kennedy and his crew proved at Los Angeles that they are a political team worthy of respect. Despite Lyndon Johnson's belated drive, despite the boisterous demonstrations for Adlai Stevenson, the efficient, machinelike Kennedy team had the nomination won before the first gavel bang. Heralding the advent of a new political breed-youngish, polished, businesslike technicians with culture and wit, the Kennedy men made the convention oratory seem superfluous and the floor demonstrations archaic...
...company, since he has a top management staff and such a low break-even point that he can make far more per compact than the Big Three, whose invasion of the market has not hurt him. Rambler sales have risen from 6.3% of total industry sales just before the advent of Falcon, Corvair and Valiant to 7.1% today -and are still climbing. Last week Rambler delivered its 300,000th unit for the 1960 model year, is running two months ahead of last year's record production and chalking up sales 25% over the last model year. In two years...
Disraeli's truism about England's "two nations" appeared in 1845, nearly a quarter of a century before he became Prime Minister. Today, despite the leveling influences of repeated wars and the advent of the welfare state, the two nations still eye each other across a gulf nearly as impassable. In Alan Sillitoe, the largely silent second nation has found a brilliantly articulate spokesman. His people, rattling around in the urban slums of the English Midlands, have nothing in common with the world image of the Englishman: tall, stolid, well-spoken with a reverence for fair play...