Word: manhattan
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...cordially greeted by Vice President Alben Barkley. Britain's wartime Prime Minister, Winston Churchill, stepped ashore from the Cunard liner Queen Elizabeth, looking pale and tired but still smoking a big cigar, and still eyeing the world with lively attention. He was picketed by left-wingers in Manhattan, but to most U.S. citizens he was still a brave and oaklike figure-the man who, in Fulton, Mo. on his last visit to the U.S., had called-dramatic attention to the strategy of the U.S.S.R. and given the Iron Curtain its name. He was saluted everywhere with instant, affectionate...
Pinfeathers. One reason he could was the fact that he has been living his job all his life. As a ten-year-old, he flew homemade model planes in Manhattan's Central Park. At the Hill School, classmates nicknamed the quiet youth "The Mummy"; but at Yale, Trippe blossomed out, went in for crew, swimming and football. "I was a guard," he grins, "on a very poor football squad-we lost twice to Harvard and twice to Princeton in my two years...
...home, with his handsome wife Elizabeth (a sister of ex-Secretary of State Edward R. Stettinius***), Trippe is a relaxed and placid parent, a two-Scotches-before-dinner man who likes to hear all about his four children's day in school. The Trippes see little of Manhattan's night life. They usually spend Trippe's off hours at home in their big apartment on fashionable Gracie Square, a stone's pitch from Mayor O'Dwyer's mansion and the tooting tugs on the East River. (A deafening blast once startled a telephoner into...
Died. Dr. Edward Loughborough Keyes, 75, topflight urologist and pioneer in sex education, one of the first U.S. specialists sent to Europe during World War I to fight venereal disease in the A.E.F.; of coronary thrombosis; in Manhattan...
Audience Participation. In Manhattan, Comedian Jack Carter reported that after his weekly television show he received a letter from a dentist: "I would . . . like to call your attention to a dark spot in your upper bicuspid area . . . May I be of service...