Word: 52nd
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Manhattan's Eighth Avenue the waiter at Andy Murphy's Bar hauled out his finest Scotches and liqueurs; a nearby news vendor noticed a sudden flurry in the demand for such publications as Rider & Driver and Town & Country. From 48th to 52nd Streets, prizefight and hockey fans were in temporary retreat before the advancing wave of high society which was bravely turned out in sables and silk hats, diamonds and décolletages. The 61st annual National Horse Show was on in Madison Square Garden...
Rene Peroy and 11 varsity fencers took a train to New York yesterday afternoon to enter the Intercollegiate Fencing Association meet at City College. The 52nd annual IFA championships will be held today and tomorrow...
Explosions in a Cellar. For four weeks, patrons of New York's Paramount Theater have been pinned against its back wall by Stan Kenton's klaxon-loud "progressive" blasts. Dizzy Gillespie, the high cockalorum of bop, was getting top billing at the rival Strand Theater. At 52nd and Broadway, the intersection of commercial acumen and "art" in popular music, the Clique Club opened its doors and let the mob in. Buddy Rich, a Tommy Dorsey alumnus and bop fellow traveler, shot spectacular explosions from his drums, and a velvet-skinned Negro named Sarah Vaughan squeezed her toothpaste-smooth...
...Barbara Leacock did indecent things to the audience with merely a set of vocal cords. These people put the jaded jazz of the current 52nd street to shame. They are all going to be at the Savoy next Sunday and around and about every weekend thereafter. Catch them when...
Harvard's football team comes home to the Stadium and 45,000 spectators today after two bruising weeks on the road. The occasion is the 52nd game with Dartmouth...