Word: 57th
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Reiter landed in Manhattan nine years ago, with $40 and a worn brief case containing all that remained of the first 33 years of his life. Watching the parade of jobless conductors on Manhattan's musical 57th Street, he decided that a scrapbook of glowing press notices in foreign languages would get him nowhere. He threw his scrapbook away...
...Indians, the art world centers far from Manhattan's 57th Street, in the luxurious Tulsa palace of Oil Millionaire Waite Phillips. There the works of more than 100 Indian artists went on display last week. Some 3,000 Tulsans, some of them art lovers, the rest just curious, jammed into the former Phillips palace on opening night...
...coup of the season on Manhattan's arty 57th Street was the first postwar show of new Picassos (TIME, Feb. 10). A small art dealer, Sam Kootz, had pulled it off. How had he done it? Crowed Kootz: he had softened up the hard-to-get master by showing him photographs of paintings by six young U.S. abstractionists in Kootz's stable...
They had offered to renew Rodzinski's contract for three years. There were a few strings attached, of course, but-. Well, what did he say? Grey-maned Artur Rodzinski had a lot to say. Speaking above the muted horns of the 57th Street traffic below, he said it for an hour and 20 minutes. A lot of it was on the state of the orchestra whose greatness he had restored. Improved, rather. But a lot more was about a man named Arthur Judson. His speech rose to a bitter, excited tirade that accused Arthur Judson, the handsome, leonine manager...
...little fifth-floor gallery, which usually regarded 100 people a day as a crowd, was filled with so many hundreds every day that the building superintendent worried about undue strain on the floor. Silver-haired Art Dealer Sam Kootz was delighted; he had scooped Manhattan's arty 57th Street with the first one-man show of new Picassos since before...