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COLORADO Like many plainsmen, Fred Schwartzwalder was enormously impressed when he first saw the Rocky Mountains. That was 30 years ago, after Fred and his young wife Martha moved to Golden, Colo, from the prairies of Iowa. Schwartzwalder fell completely under the spell of the Rockies; every weekend and holiday...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COLORADO: The Front-Range Pessimist | 12/6/1954 | See Source »

The clouds pass by, but they leave radioactive particles that work their way into the samples the scientists are trying to test in their laboratories. The particles have not been strong enough, so far, to be dangerous to human health, but they make the delicate apparatus give false readings.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: TheFall-OutandC 14 | 12/6/1954 | See Source »

Real-Estate Juggler William Zeckendorf is a man who likes to "turn peanuts into bananas." Last year, hoping to turn the trick again, he started work on a $35 million hotel and department-store center on a vacant plot in Denver. He soon ran into trouble. The plans called for...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: REAL ESTATE: Peanuts & Bananas | 11/22/1954 | See Source »

O'Casey proudly calls himself a Communist and has a soft spot in his head for the Soviet Union ("The inexhaustible energy, the irresistible enthusiasm of their Socialistic efforts, were facts to Sean; grand facts"). But this does not make his autobiography any less entertaining. O'Casey admits...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: O'Casey at the Bat | 11/15/1954 | See Source »

The plot concerns a so-called "Collateral Campaign" to celebrate the Austro-Hungarian Emperor's 70th jubilee. The campaign grinds along like a slow bus to nowhere. Committees beget committees, pressure groups stall each other in what one critic described as the dance of rainmakers who have lost their...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Dance Around an Egghead | 11/15/1954 | See Source »

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