Word: 57th
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Kissam Vanderbilt (later Mrs. Oliver Hazard Perry Belmont) for the supremacy of the Vanderbilt clan. In Newport Mrs. Vanderbilt built "The Breakers," the resort's No. 1 mansion; in Manhattan, with permission of the French Government a copy of the Chateau de Blois, razed from its Fifth Avenue & 57th Street corner seven years ago. Her calling cards read: "Mrs. Vanderbilt." She bore six children: Brigadier General Cornelius; Gertrude (Mrs. Harry Payne Whitney); Gladys (Countess Szechenyi); William Henry (died 1892); Alfred Gwynne, who died on the Lusitania; Reginald Claypoole (died...
...takes unusual merit or a great reputation to draw the average Manhattan art critic from his comfortable daily beat up & down the smart art marts of 57th Street. Most of these choosy journalists were down under the Elevated last week picking their way among the packing cases and fruit stands of Greenwich Village. Alexander Brook was having another exhibition at the Downtown Gallery...
Every race in the 57th Annual Intercollegiate Track & Field Championships at Cambridge last week set a meet record. This was not because the runners were noticeably faster than in other years but because the distances were measured in metres for the first time. The night before the first day's trials, 25 I. C. A. A. A. A. coaches, disgruntled because their proteges were deprived of the chance of breaking old intercollegiate records, voted 22 to 3 to return to distances measured in yards next year...
Cats. One of Paul Fiene's best cat statues was not on view in his own exhibition last week but up on 57th Street where the Ferargil Galleries held an elaborate cat show. Following a showing of cats in art at the little Maurel Gallery year ago (TIME, Dec. 14, 1931) Ferargil showed not only paintings and statues of cats, but cat prints, cat bookends, cat doorstops, cat ash trays, cat hooked rugs, cat footstools. Besides Paul Fiene's rather heraldic cat couchant, notable cats were those by William Zorach, Peggy Bacon. Agnes Tait, Tsugoharu Foujita...
With sirens shrieking, a swarm of motorcycles shot down Fifth Avenue, Manhattan, and turned west on 57th Street. After them sped a black limousine with secret service men standing like supernumerary footmen on its running boards. A truck full of trunks followed. It was Thursday, March 2, and Citizen Franklin Delano Roosevelt was moving to the White House...