Word: greenwich
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Margaret Clapp did not guess why the trustees were there, or why they stayed for lunch with her. That night she rode home on the subway, as usual, to her Greenwich Village walk-up and thought no more about it. But some time later her telephone rang. It was Edward Weeks editor of the Atlantic Monthly, also a Wellesley trustee. Would Miss Clapp have dinner with him? By this time, Miss Clapp had a good idea of what was up. Over brook trout and a bottle of wine at the Ritz-Carlton, Weeks began to ask questions. "Do you sleep...
Teamed with socialite Sculptress Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, Juliana Force did as much as anyone to pull contemporary U.S. art out of the side streets of Greenwich Village and points east & west, place it in galleries where the public could see and admire it. For when Gertrude Whitney took a studio in the Village's MacDougal Alley in 1907, the plush offices of the Fifth Avenue art dealers were still cold to all but academicians. Museums would not look twice at the work of naturalist painters such as John Sloan and William Glackens, who were sneeringly referred...
Prior to coming to Harvard, Clark was assistant to the Director of Personnel for Rockefeller Center Inc., in New York. He was born in Greenwich, Conn., graduated from New Canaan High School in New Canaan, Conn., and was a member of the Class of 1940 at Dartmouth College. He was a Captain in the Infantry in World War II and saw service in the Philippine Islands and Japan...
Last week, Mary Lou was still playing the same kind of exciting piano in a jammed Greenwich Village basement bistro called the Village Vanguard-even though no bigwigs of jazz happened to be around to do any picking up and kissing...
...ancient town of Mell, in Poland, where the travelers elect to stay, is a faultless work of pure imagination, a distillation of all European cathedral towns and watering places, with a few touches of South Africa and Greenwich Village thrown in. Medieval houses and cobbled streets fill young Morgan with wonder on his first sunny morning...