Word: 57th
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...early as 8:15 in the morning on opening day, collectors were queueing up outside 57th Street's Sidney Janis Gallery, jostling for first peeks and early buys. By noon. 19 of the show's 22 oils were sold at prices ranging from $2,200 for the smallest oil sketch to $14,000 apiece for five big canvases. At week's end a new De Kooning was not to be had for love or money. Shyly backed against a wall as the crowd milled through the gallery, De Kooning was startled and pleased: "There...
People laughed at them, and so finally, after 35 years of trying, Eilshemius quit art. A cranky, messy, bearded bachelor, he lived with a churchmouse of a brother and an old housekeeper in the family's Manhattan brownstone on East 57th Street. The last 20 years of his life were devoted almost exclusively to barren eccentricities designed to promote himself. In endless letters to the newspapers he ranted of his unjust fate. The letters were signed "Flashful Inventor," "Supreme Spirit of the Spheres," or simply "Transcendent Eagle...
...Crimson, Jed Fitzgerald finished 57th, in 27 min., 18 sec., while Mac Brown placed 73rd, in 26 min., 31 sec. and Ed Martin came in 85th...
Brigadier General Donald W. Saunders, 45, commander of the Strategic Air Command's 57th Air Division...
Victory. For two months, from the time he was accepted until he left for Moscow, Van shut himself away in his tiny Manhattan apartment on 57th Street across from Carnegie Hall and spent six to eight hours a day at his quilt-covered Steinway practicing the staggering repertory each entrant was expected to master. Plagued with colitis, he dutifully went in for dieting and rigorous physical conditioning, boosted his strength with massive doses of vitamins and six packages of Knox gelatin a day. Sundays he checked his progress with Mme. Lhevinne, or gave small private recitals for groups of friends...