Word: 57th
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...twenties, firmly established himself as the focal point of a circle of wits who gathered at the brunches he held in his 57th street apartment, dubbed "Wits' End" by Dorothy Parker, Secure in his work, he prospered during the Depression. He travelled frequently, lecturing, observing, collecting anecdotes. Notoriously cheap, he "allowed" members of the organizations sponsoring his lectures to put him up for the night. His cutting rudeness as a guest inspired the George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart collaboration, The Man Who Came To Dinner. Woollcott's jabs seemed to delight him as much as they did his audience...
...nine, is now part of the Soviet Union. Pozsony, where he spent his teen-age years, has become Bratislava, Czechoslovakia. He died of leukemia in New York City in 1945, a refugee from the war, living at the end in a cramped apartment on West 57th Street...
...what's left of it. "The advantage is with the offense," insists Brigadier General John A. Shaud, commander of SAC'S 57th Air Division. The crews are not so sure...
Klaussen is the first Harvard skier to qualify for both the NCAA slalom and giant slalom events since demi-god Ben Steele did it in 1973. Last year, Klaussen, the only Harvard contender and seeded a dead last, barely qualified for the giant slalom. Although he was the 57th man to leave the gate, Klaussen took a surprising 26th place at the University of Vermont-hosted meet...
...fashionably dressed owner of Manhattan's most chic West 57th St. emporium arrives late to most appointments, except the Wednesday-afternoon staff meetings in her elegantly spacious office. Gathered around her burnished Louis XV desk, some 20 directors and buyers bring forward the trendy products that they have scouted out from as far away as mountain villages in southern Italy or as near as a young designer's SoHo loft: cardigans in this fall's newest colors (baby pastels), crepe de Chine jumpsuits by Stephen Burrows, $85 knit caps from Paris. The show-and-tell sessions...