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...twelve is a puzzle to her schoolmates, a trial to her teachers, a constant irritant who sends her unsympathetic father's blood pressure zooming. She lives on Manhattan's fashionable Beekman Place, but she runs wild with a gang of dead-end kids on the banks of the East River. The other children at Miss Drew's School for Girls are delivered and fetched by governesses; Meg comes clattering up on roller skates, a tense, skinny gamin who wears a big hunting knife and dreams of being suckled by a lioness. When a furtive little man makes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Not So Innocent | 3/13/1950 | See Source »

...Lasker's house on Manhattan's stylish Beekman Place is decorated with paintings (by Dali, Picasso, Matisse) from her art-dealer days. But her real interest now is the foundation and the awards. Says she: "One human being on fire can do so much and nobody was paying much attention to the fire that came from these men." The awards, she thinks, may fan the fire...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Fanning the Fire | 8/30/1948 | See Source »

...years, Billy Rose has sprinted breathlessly (sometimes sidestepping, and down dark alleys) from grinding poverty to easeful wealth, from chalk on the sidewalk to a Rembrandt in his parlor, from a cold-water tenement to elegant $100,000 diggings on Manhattan's Beekman Place...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: The Busy Heart | 6/2/1947 | See Source »

...blocks north of U.N. and one block from the constant rumble of First Avenue trucks is Manhattan's swank, placid Beekman Place, rimming a bluff over the East River, with a view from Brooklyn to The Bronx. John D. Rockefeller III has an apartment at No. 1. A block away lives Columnist-Entrepreneur Billy Rose, with his wife, Eleanor Holm, Actress Katherine Cornell lives...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STATES & CITIES: First Avenue, New York | 12/23/1946 | See Source »

Sunday, Feb.11 was a chill day of intermittent rain. In the dripping churchyard after service, Dean Beekman told his organist: "You never played hymns better." Whipp thanked him, and cheerfully set off to lunch with friends at Auteuil...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Case of the Missing Organist | 3/12/1945 | See Source »

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