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When the doors of Christie's opened in London one day last week, a full-house crowd was waiting to squeeze into the auction room. Up for sale was a collection of 166 pictures, including Joseph Mallord William Turner's seascape of Helvoetsluys, the Dutch port. For the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Touch of Genius | 8/2/1954 | See Source »

¶ In London, a bill for commercial television passed the House of Commons by a vote of 291-265, and now faces the House of Lords. In order to squeeze through Parliament, the bill had been so adulterated that commercial TVmen complained that it combined the worst features of government...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: The Busy Air, Jul. 12, 1954 | 7/12/1954 | See Source »

Three big watchmakers-Hamilton, Elgin and Waltham-set off an alarm in Washington last week over tariffs. Before a Senate Armed Services subcommittee, they testified that higher tariffs for watches are vital to national defense. The alarm was well timed. It came as word leaked out that the U.S. Tariff...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN TRADE: The Watch Tariff | 7/12/1954 | See Source »

Booked Until September. From his great paneled office in the Administration Building, Compton ran his campus with a firm but informal hand. He turned out some 300 articles on everything from thermionics to spectroscopy, helped found the American Institute of Physics, kept in constant touch with brother Arthur Holly Compton...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Man of Goodwill | 7/5/1954 | See Source »

In the last ten years only one big, new daily has been launched, the Los Angeles Mirror. It has cost Publisher Norman Chandler millions already, and is still losing at the rate of an estimated $20,000 to $30,000 a week. Last week the Mirror, along with Hearst'...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: The High Cost of Publishing | 6/21/1954 | See Source »

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