Word: manhattan
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died. Dr. Alexander Lambert, 77, second son of a famed medical family; of heart disease; in Manhattan. In 50 years as diagnostician, specialist on internal medicine and drug addiction, Dr. Lambert treated Theodore Roosevelt, Major General Leonard Wood, Samuel Gompers, many another notable. Of his eight pallbearers (all kin), four were doctors...
Grey-goateed President Jonas Lie (pronounced Lee) of the National Academy of Design likes to have its members remembered. Exhibited to that end last week at Manhattan's American Fine Arts Building was a fascinating array of work by vigorous Academicians from Inness to Homer to Bellows, plus notes, letters and early telegraphic contraptions by Samuel Finley Breese Morse, the gifted portraitist and first president of the Academy (1826-45), who turned inventor to make a living...
...them stood a new, long, spacious building faced with marble and glass; inside it other crowds could be seen, swishing past its plate-glass panels like frilly fish in a bright aquarium. Occasion for these beautiful doings was the formal opening of the long-awaited, permanent home of Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art (since 1937 temporarily camped in offices and basement galleries of the TIME & LIFE Building in Rockefeller Center). In equal parts swank, sober and glamorous, the company (more than 6,000) included such varied personages as Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt, ex-Premier Juan Negrin of Spain, Sculptor...
...moved from a Center to a citadel. In its own handsome house it became one of the most completely visible institutions in the U. S. Ten years of work - and the intelligent use of wealth-had given it a national reputation, national responsibilities. Liberal Ladies. For years after Manhattan's huge Armory Show of Post-Impressionism in 1913 the "modern art" controversy remained, to the public at large, barbaric and obscure. During those years two rich and modest women, Nelson Rockefeller's mother and her friend, the late Lillie Plummer Bliss, quietly bought whatever modern works they enjoyed...
...Gogh (October 1935), a smash hit seen by 125,000 in Manhattan...