Word: manhattan
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Forecast. In Manhattan, newsmen who had tramped through a sleet-and-rain-storm to cover the 101st national meeting of the American Meteorological Society reported that most of the 200-odd delegates had come without galoshes or raincoats...
...President's only child talked to her father & mother and got their approval. Last week Margaret Truman, soprano, had an apartment of her own in Manhattan where she will live with her mother's secretary, Miss Reathel Odum, while she practices for a concert tour in October. Margaret, who will be 25 next week (Feb. 17), expects to spend one weekend a month in Washington...
...Budapest courtroom, seven anti-Communists stood trial, and went from accusation to judgment in five days (see FOREIGN NEWS). In Manhattan, eleven cocky Communists, also accused of conspiring against their own country, were in their fourth week of pretrial maneuvering, and a jury had not even been chosen. All the privileges of U.S. justice, including the opportunity of delay .and the doubtful right of sheer dallying with the court, was being given to them in its fullest measure...
...Manhattan last week, three forlorn people mingled with the crowds and peered wistfully into the shop windows of the promised land. The young couple was Rumanian, the slim youth Polish. To get there, they had endured years of homelessness, hunger, danger and bitter waiting-and now that they had arrived, they could not expect to stay. They were illegal immigrants, caught on a last desperate attempt to smuggle themselves into the U.S. Temporarily, they were at liberty on bond...
Last week, an audience in Manhattan's Town Hall got to hear the music that had become "a real labor of love" for both Mezzo Tourel and Composer Hindemith. Incandescent with devotional power and warmth, much, if not all, of Das Marienleben made far easier listening this time. Most listeners found it "noble music" indeed. Japed Jennie, tired, but flushed and excited by the music and the ovation: "Let's go back on and do it again...