Word: 44th
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Chicago's skyline like an enormous, glass-enclosed oil derrick. But far more revolutionary than its façade will be its double-duty interior plan. From the 43rd floor down, it is an ordinary office building, complete with seven floors of ramp-access parking. But from the 44th floor up, it turns into an apartment house with its own indoor swimming pool, enclosed shopping promenade and a topfloor restaurant...
Died. Jacob J. Shubert, 86, last of the three boys from Syracuse who founded Broadway's theatrical empire; of a stroke; in his Manhattan penthouse atop Sardi's 44th Street restaurant. In the partnership, Older Brother Sam was the producer and Middle Brother Lee the businessman; "J.J." touched both sides of the business, playing backer to Florenz Ziegfeld, producing more than 500 shows, and sending Eddie Cantor, Al Jolson, Marilyn Miller and Bert Lahr on their way to stardom. Until 1956, when the U.S. Government settled an antitrust suit, the Shuberts controlled half of all U.S. legitimate theaters...
...Detroit, it was a shiny, triumphal week. Even the Cuban crisis, which forced Vice President Lyndon Johnson to cancel out as the chief speaker at a black-tie dinner of the auto industry's top brass, hardly diminished the excitement of the 44th National Automobile Show. Most of the million people who passed through cavernous Cobo Hall during the course of the week cheerily ignored the corny musical revue, in which leggy girls and toothy boys noisily attempted to equate car buying and patriotism ("Drive, you eagle, drive,/Hooray for the bright new day,/ Hooray for the U.S.A...
...close to New York. When a heavy wind blows south from Boston or New Haven, it too often carries to Manhattan an unpleasant odor that bodes ill for the play heading for Broadway. Moreover, in the super-envious world of the theater, too many good old friends from around 44th Street like to flock to the nearby roadshows in gleeful hopes of bottling the last gasp...
Fighting the Army. The 171 pros who qualified for the 44th P.G.A. took one look at Aronimink's broad fairways and manicured greens, helpfully dampened by heavy showers, and pronounced the course "honest"-which is pro talk for "a cinch." But they reckoned without two handicaps: the hot, humid weather, and "Arnie's army"-the huge, unruly gallery that stampeded noisily around the course chasing everybody's favorite golfer, Arnold Palmer. "You can't think, can't concentrate," complained one pro. "It's damned upsetting to stand over a putt and hear feet pounding...