Word: 44th
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Parlors & Bonbons. The Fifth Avenue Bank has done as well. It started at Fifth Avenue and 44th Street and soon pioneered a great banking change. At the time, women avoided banks, wrote a contemporary, because banks were usually crowded with men "among whom it is not agreeable for a lady to penetrate...
Bethlehem, Pa., home of steel mills and wrestlers, starts its big weekend of the year today, for all the top Eastern Collegiate muscle talent has come to town to decide the 1948 wrestling titles. With home-town Lehigh University as the defending champions, the 44th Annual Championships, with 16 teams entered, rate the climax spot of the grappling season...
Times Square lay in its nervous twilight of night and neon glow. The rubberneckers, the readers of the Daily Racing Form, the Liggett Romeos and the double-feature devotees opened a grudging path down 44th Street. From the cavalcade of tinny taxis and glossy limousines poured Broadway's first-nighters, their faces as rosy and bland as cherries in a Manhattan...
When the four Foreign Ministers filed into the conference room for their 44th, and final, session at 4 p.m., everything had been said that could be said. Molotov plodded over the familiar ground, trying to explain Russia's refusal to join the U.S. in a 40-year demilitarization treaty on Germany. Bevin, in the chair, looked at Marshall. "Any comment?" he asked. "No comment," said Marshall. Molotov again summed up Russia's demands for all property seized by the Germans in Austria. "Any comment?" asked Bevin. "No comment," said Marshall...
Urbanity Plus. Frank Case was a clerk at the Algonquin when it opened in 1902, as a West 44th Street neighbor of Sherry's and Delmonico's. Soon he was its manager, then its owner. As such, he had no use for the social register or big bank accounts. They made for dull company. He was determined "to get the Arts." He got what he wanted by providing the Arts with good food, reasonable bills which didn't always have to be paid promptly, and with his own unfailing urbanity...