Word: manhattan
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Married. Robert Vanderpoel Clark, 21, Manhattan's No. 1 male debutant of 1938, Singer Sewing Machine Co. heir; and Suzanne de La Salle Chambers Hiteman, 36, French-born divorcee; he for the first time, she for the third; in Manhattan. At Glamor Boy Clark's coming-of-age party last November, celebrated in Manhattan's 21 Club, Glamor Girl Brenda Frazier and scores of other debutantes drank his health...
Died. Colonel Joel Elias Spingarn, 64, lifelong champion of the U. S. Negro, president of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People; after long illness; in Manhattan. Other Spingarn interests: a club for "Professors [like himself] Who Were Fired or Resigned Under Pressure from Columbia University," recreation centres for rural areas, boosting of the once-popular clematis* vine...
Last winter, after twelve barren years, frail Mrs. Howard Albert Jackson of Manhattan bore her proud husband a baby girl. For two months the joyous Jacksons showed off little Alice to their admiring friends. Then suddenly they noticed that her head was swelling like a little balloon. The tender fontanel at the top of her head was tense and bulging, and thick blue veins stood out like cords underneath her downy hair. The doctor shook his head, told them that the baby had hydrocephalus (water on the brain) and, like 2,000 other hydrocephalic children born...
Determined to keep their hard-won baby, the Jacksons frantically combed Manhattan every day for a month, seeking a doctor who would offer them some hope. Last spring at the Neurological Institute they found young Dr. John Edwin Scarff. By this time the head of little eleven-pound Alice measured 18 inches in circumference. Dr. Scarff agreed to operate...
China Boy and I've Found A New Baby (Bud Freeman and the Summa Cum Laude; Bluebird). First recordings of Manhattan's newest and most exciting hot band, a cooperative group consisting of Freeman (saxophone), Peewee Russell (clarinet), Eddie Condon (guitar) and five others who permanently dance-banded together after being assembled to play for the Class of 1929's reunion in Princeton last June. Sound as well as sassy, the Summa Cum Laudes are all musical veterans, and their China Boy-classic touchstone for rhythm bands-is fit to file alongside the historic Whiteman versions...