Word: lansburgh
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...Seattle, citizens have been contributing $350 each to sponsor a series of eyecatching manhole covers that have been turned into relief maps for pedestrians. In Washington, D.C., the vacated Lansburgh's department store is beginning to serve as an arts center that is changing dingy Seventh Street into a kind of Soho. And in Chelsea, site of those lifelike bronze sculptures, large photo panels of local citizens have been put up near the renewed main street, producing the effect of a giant family album for public browsers...
...rooms, or let us off!" The America reversed course and arrived back at New York fewer than twelve hours after embarking. More than 250 vacationers jumped ship and were ferried by tugboat to Staten Island, where many were stranded for the rest of the night, cheered only by Lansburgh's promise of a full refund...
...ship steamed into the Atlantic, the disgruntled passengers began to mutiny. More than 100 of them drew up a petition to the state attorney general demanding refunds. Leonard Lansburgh, one of the ship's owners, tried to pacify the passengers by announcing that drinks were on the house. It hardly helped. Fistfights and swearing matches broke out. One drunken man took a swing at a woman purser, who thereupon screamed into the p.a. system, "Emergency! Emergency!" By then, the crew-including Greeks, Jamaicans and Koreans, who had difficulty communicating both with one another and with the guests-began...
ROBERT I. LANSBURGH Asheville...
...Empire but a sort of Roxified Renaissance is the Hotel Senator bar, and Architect Lansburgh had just two weeks to get the work done. Puzzling this problem he called in the fastest-working firm of mural painters he could think of, the Heinsbergen Decorating Co. of Los Angeles, and last week the job was done. Before the startled eyes of Empire Room drinkers appeared two 9-ft. panels, the first known murals on the subject of the Love of Edward VIII and Mrs. Simpson...