Word: manhattan
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Manhattan for an Overseas Press Club dinner in his honor, George C. Marshall was asked to name a couple of favorite songs. Singer Jessica Dragonette bypassed one choice, Rock of Ages, sang his other favorite, Buttons and Bows...
Anna Louise Strong, 63, back in Manhattan after getting kicked out of her beloved Moscow, collapsed from "complete physical and nervous exhaustion," had to postpone her scheduled appearance before a federal grand jury investigating espionage...
...January. The 200-odd union workers of Calvary, one of the country's largest Roman Catholic cemeteries, were bargaining for a raise of about 20%-a five-day week for the same wages ($59.40) they now get for a six-day week. Their employers, the trustees of Manhattan's St. Patrick's Cathedral, offered them a raise of about 3%. The gravediggers turned the offer down, and negotiations came to a stop. On Jan. 13, they went out on strike, and the coffins began to pile up at Calvary. After burial services, the coffins were laid down...
...marble baby dimpling among the dried-up plants on the Manhattan art dealer's window sill was badly in need of a bath. But to Dr. Walter Heil, director of San Francisco's De Young Memorial Museum, his happy face and grimy little body had a familiar look. Andrea del Verrocchio,* Renaissance goldsmith, painter and sculptor, had carved some other youngsters very like...
...purchased for the royal family of Württemberg and moved from Florence to a palace near Stuttgart; there it remained till after World War I, when a Berlin dealer bought it, later brought it to the U.S., where it wound up in the Manhattan window...