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Floor Shows. Closed is Smart Showman Billy Rose's famed Casa Manana, but sparkling with the brightest floor show in town is his Diamond Horseshoe. In a room decked out with expertly hideous. Mauve Decade decor, on a tiny stage above a tremendous bar, the Diamond...
This week the longest (328 pages) English-language biography of Physicist Albert Einstein, now the most distinguished resident of Princeton, N. J., was published by H. Gordon Garbedian, a science writer on the staff of the New York Times.* Brightest spots in Mr. Garbedian's book are the Einstein anecdotes. Samples...
...sveltly starched Fifth Avenue passes the extreme northeast tip of Central Park, plunges into a new world-the teeming, Spanish-speaking slums, or barrio, of Lower Harlem. Mainly inhabited by Puerto Ricans, with a peppering of Cubans, Spaniards, Filipinos, Mexicans, it is one of the poorest, noisiest, brightest, muskiest, most musical and least written-about foreign quarters in Manhattan...
...enlightenment: 1) those who think that "civilization" came to North America with the white man; 2) those who think that pre-white civilization is now cheapened or extinct. The man who made both views appear distinctly stuffy was René d'Harnoncourt, Austrian-born artist, teacher and brightest young blood in the Interior Department's Office of Indian Affairs...
...observatory Dr. Prager will join the Milton Bureau, an organization subsidized by the Milton Fund of the University, and the members of which are analyzing the light variations of the two or three thousand brightest variable stars and will before the conclusion of their study amass more than a million observations and record the behavior of these stars on photographs taken since...