Word: manhattan
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Dancer Trudl Dubsky Zipper (see cut) lives with her husband in Brooklyn and teaches at the New School in Manhattan...
After a stint at business school and two years of law school, gregarious, piano-playing Jimmy Walker set out to write songs for a living. He had only one big hit, Will You Love Me in December as You Do in May?, but he made a million friends in Manhattan. In 1912, Jimmy married his sweetheart, Janet ("Allie") Allen, to a medley of "Here Comes the Bride" and Witt You Love Me in December? All his life a 10 o'clock scholar, Jimmy was more than two hours late for the wedding. Two years later, after having served...
Jimmy got a divorce and married Betty Compton. He tried this & that to keep up his standard of living-a newspaper column, a chicken farm, assistant counsel for the State Transit Commission, a job at $25,000 yearly as czar of labor relations in Manhattan's garment industry. He was still faultlessly tailored, urbane and worldly. In 1942, after his marriage to Betty had also ended in divorce, Jimmy, 60, went back to the Roman Catholic Church. "The glamor of other days I have found to be tinsel," he later said...
...same old Irish stew without so much as adding a fresh onion. The Road Between shuttles between Chicago and the leftish intellectual world of New York in 1932. Aspiring Writer Bernard Carr, who works for an undertaker, has eloped with his employer's daughter and settled down in Manhattan to write. The Road is a wearisome recital of Bernard's troubles with publishers, poverty, his wife's unwelcome pregnancy and the everlasting pressure from Communist pals to make Bernard give up his creative independence and write party-line tracts. Farrell's handling of this overworked material...
...York City colleges last week outlawed Marxist groups from their campuses. Brooklyn College took the strongest measures, suspending activity of its Karl Marx Society for holding a meeting in Manhattan at which Henry Winston, organizational secretary of the Communist Party, spoke. Winston is one of the 11 Communists on trial in the United States District Court...