Word: manhattan
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...almost three years, twelve-year-old Martin had been living in hospitals or convalescent homes. He is back home now in the fifth-floor, $44-a-month Manhattan walk-up apartment with his mother & father, grandmother, younger sister and older brother. Martin still suffers from rheumatic heart disease (caused by rheumatic fever), is still bedfast, still needs the kind of medical care that hospitals give. He is getting that kind of care now at home...
...Good Bit More. Lewenthal, proprietor of the moneymaking Associated American Artists Galleries (Manhattan, Chicago, Beverly Hills), who has promoted the work of many a U.S. artist (e.g., Grant Wood, Thomas Hart Benton) on to Christmas cards, De Beers diamonds ads, etc., offered to buy the picture for 50,000 francs (about $400 at the time). But the canny patron was in no hurry; after the painting was authenticated as Van Gogh's, he upped his price to a good bit more. Lewenthal paid the price, but for "two years of agony" he could not get the picture...
Because of such players as George Mikan, pro basketball is gradually taking on a big-league glow. The Basketball Association of America is a twelve-city circuit, playing to enthusiastic crowds from Manhattan's Madison Square Garden to St. Louis' Arena. Its stars get paid as much as $17,500 for a 20-week season. Like Mikan, most of the big-name basketball pros come out of topflight collegiate ranks...
...spite of reports to the contrary, there was still young life in Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera...
...Roland Berner, Manhattan lawyer and leader of the stockholder group which had tried to break Vaughan's control...