Word: huntingtonism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...opera; instead, New Yorkers will be coming to Boston." But Impresario Oscar Hammerstein, then staging grand opera at his Manhattan Opera House in successful competition with the Metropolitan, made another kind of prophecy. He noted that the hulking red brick and terra-cotta pile at the corner of Huntington Avenue and Opera Place was next door to the Boston Storage Warehouse and suggested blandly that "perhaps some day the two can be combined...
...cannot approve your disorderly method," nevertheless pledged $1,400 to save the theater, which was to be replaced by an office building. Later, cooing, "Oh, how I do love millionaires; they are full of charm as well as dough," Actress Leigh announced happily that art-oriented A & P Moneybags Huntington Hartford and another tycoon had promised to chip in. Last week the embattled actress got the news that the House of Lords gallantly had voted a stay of demolition to the cramped, outmoded, bomb-battered and much-loved theater (where Charles Dickens first saw his plays produced). Then, with...
...city grew, so did the power of Otis and his friends. In 1890 Otis proclaimed that bustling Los Angeles (pop. 50,000) must have a "free" harbor, thereby threw himself and the Times into a seven-year battle with the powerful Southern Pacific and its boss, Collis P. Huntington. The S.P. bitterly insisted on a harbor to be located at Santa Monica, where, providentially, S.P. owned the only access route; the Times pounded its fist for a site to the south, free of S.P. domination, at the coastal inlet of San Pedro. With the eager Santa Fe railroad...
...than flickers on his mind. The winding Los Angeles River, which flowed through the area, carried most of its water underground; a growing city would need more water. Rounding up powerful business friends-Union Pacific Railroad's E. H. Harriman, Promoter Moses Sherman, Banker Joseph Sartori and Collis Huntington's nephew Henry-Chandler set out to locate a new source. He found it: 240 miles to the northeast lay a lush valley of orchards and farms fed by the Owens River. Chandler and his friends quietly bought up the water and land rights from the prosperous, unsuspecting Owens...
...last November, the school board in suburban New Hyde Park, L.I. (pop. 10.500) passed what seemed to be a most innocuous proposal: to post in the classrooms of its elementary schools a version of the Ten Commandments. The version was to be the same as that used in nearby Huntington since 1954. It was so worded as to offend no particular faith, did not involve any religious instruction. But no sooner had the decision been made than the area was in an uproar...