Word: 57th
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Shrewdly advised by Grant and Bautzer, she tore down some old brownstones at 57th Street and Park Avenue in Manhattan that were bringing her $8,000 a year, got the Tishman Realty & Construction Co. to put up and lease the 22-story, aluminum-sheathed Davies Building. It pays her about $120,000 a year. Down came a block of flats on her property at 55th Street and Madison Avenue, and now abuilding is the 17-story Douras Building, named for her father, onetime Manhattan Judge Barney Douras, which will bring her about $50,000 a year. By improving property...
Died. Bill Vukovich, 36, two-time winner (1953 and 1954) of the Memorial Day Indianapolis Speedway 500-mile race; in a five-car pile-up as he led the pack on the 57th lap (see SPORT...
...relied purely on vast, flat swirls and puddlings of paint, paint, paint. Painter Hultberg, who once studied with two leaders of the school, Clyfford Still and Mark Rothko, was among the first to rebel against it. While the fad was still at its height, he walked Manhattan's 57th Street with his canvases under his arm, vainly trying to interest the dealers in his own new approach to painting. But when the slap and dab of abstract-expressionism began to become a bore, the time was ripe for Individualist Hultberg...
...unlike the habitués of Wall Street, those of 57th Street (and of the East 60s and "70s, to which many galleries have recently migrated) are usually just looking. With a good visual memory and a will for the work, any looker can build a splendid art museum in his own mind-where feet never tire and the lighting is good. Among New York's candidates for such imaginary museums this week were the works shown on these pages. Their quality (and lack of it), as well as their extraordinary range, were typical of the New York...
...first two acts. The play's chief asset, its nimble wisecracking, is also a liability. For it impedes the farcical explosiveness needed for so plot-heavy a yarn, and-brash even where it is funny-the wisecracking prevents Reclining Figure from being elegant or urbane. Writing of 57th Street, Playwright Kurnitz has caught Broadway's tone while missing its tempo...