Word: 57th
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Five nights before his 57th birthday, Franklin Roosevelt motored over to Fort Myer, Va. to a gala Army horseshow, proceeds of which (around $3,000) began this year's anti-infantile paralysis collection in his honor. With him he took Mrs. Roosevelt, horse-loving Harry Hopkins, and Madam Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins, currently under fire in the House...
...also able painters, but in the last few years Raphael's single-minded portrayals of pathos in Manhattan's sober poor have given him the greater reputation. Last week his first one-man show since 1935, at the Valentine Gallery, brought 14th Street impressively to fashionable 57th. In Soyer's accomplished paintings of Greenwich Village characters there was neither humor nor brilliance but a great deal of dun truth...
...this constituted a well-rounded education, the student reflected, as he climbed the stairs of a little gallery on East 57th Street. Classes Tuesday through Thursday, then a weekend. Cocktail parties, getting around, meeting people, exchanging ideas. Then topping it off with a spot of culture like this. The sign read, Paintings, Moorish in Subject, Matisse in Influence. He opened the door...
Manhattan's Fine Arts building on 57th Street has been hallowed for years by the conservative exhibits of the National Academy of Design. Last week it was baptized in extremism by the first pontifical show ever held of U. S. abstract art. The showrooms were filled with 150 constructions, ranging from an arrangement of amoeba shapes, wires and an electric headlight, to round and oval salad bowls stuck on a chaste grey background. They were the work of some 50 members of the American Abstract Artists, a two-year-old and growing group which takes itself very seriously...
...businessmen, professors and economists at whose gatherings white ties are more in evidence than Windsor bows, made large headlines in 1933 when George Bernard Shaw delivered a saucy socialistic speech under its auspices at Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera House. Last week the Academy, gathered for its 57th annual meeting at Manhattan's Astor Hotel, heard an equally newsmaking speech, neither saucy nor socialistic, by U. S. Secretary of the Treasury Henry Morgenthau...