Word: manhattan
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Manhattan's clangorous Sixth Avenue, a block away from verdant Central Park, stands the garlic-scented Chambers Restaurant and Delicatessen. On one side of the establishment is a bar, on the other a counter piled high with salami, liverwurst and jars of borsch. There, greying...
British Actor-Playwright Robert Morley, who has picked up a few prizes in Manhattan for his biggest hit, Edward, My Son, had some thoughts as he prepared to return to London. He was "amazed" at the U.S. public's respect, "almost veneration," for English actors. "It's very lucky for us, of course," he conceded, "but it stultifies the American theater . . . You are always giving prizes and awards to English playwrights and players, a practice which in reverse would never be permitted in England...
...kind of story that nightclub pressagents lie awake mornings trying to contrive, knowing that the tabloids will lap it up if it can be made to look like hot news. One morning last week, while other Manhattan papers were playing photographs of the Northwest's earthquake (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS) on their front pages, the New York Daily News coolly threw its quake pictures on the floor. It had exclusive, newsstand-shocking news of its own; on Page One, the Daily News slapped a full-page action shot of Stripteasers Georgia Sothern and Joann Collier, zestfully clawing each other outside...
Rough, tough Louis Ruppel limped into the Manhattan offices of Collier's and cast a sardonic glance around. Most of new Editor Ruppel's worried staff, who had heard about his temper, his Anglo-Saxon expletives and "off-with-their-heads" methods, half-expected to be eaten alive. Editor Ruppel, though still recovering from a spinal operation, did not entirely disappoint them...
Growing Up. The Reporter's editor, publisher and financial angel is scholarly, Italian-born Max Ascoli, 50, whose opposition to Mussolini, while teaching political philosophy at an Italian university, forced him to leave Italy for the U.S. in 1931. Ascoli has since taught at Manhattan's New School for Social Research, recently wrote a book of political philosophy, The Power of Freedom...