Word: manhattan
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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PERCY J. EBBOTT, 61, became president of Manhattan's Chase National Bank, third largest in the U.S.* He will share the chief executive duties with Board Chairman Winthrop W. Aldrich. Ebbott's predecessor, Arthur W. McCain, became vice chairman. A ruddy-faced, friendly Midwesterner, born in Fort Atkinson, Wis., Ebbott worked at sales and manufacturing before entering banking, has been a Chase vice president since...
Autos. General Motors wound up its eight-day showing of its new models in Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria (TIME, Jan. 24) with a total attendance of 320,000. The new models had gone over so well that one Detroit "new-used" car dealer said he had been offered $853 above the list price for a 1949 Chevrolet...
...first high tea Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria had served in years. Near the tea cozies, where U.S. newsmen juggled their cups a bit awkwardly, stood three new 1949-model Morris cars. Peppery Viscount Nuffield, Britain's biggest motormaker, had sent them over by the Queen Mary as an opening bid for the U.S. market and as an answer to an old antagonist...
...June day in 1947, Manhattan Physician Cornelius Traeger suddenly took leave of his host, Sinclair Lewis, to visit a patient: "I have a feeling that Johnny Gunther will die this weekend." Johnny did die, of a brain tumor that more than a dozen doctors had fought unsuccessfully for 15 months. Johnny was only 17, a tall, good-looking, skinny kid who had graduated from Deerfield Academy and planned to enter Harvard that fall...
Last summer, Hindemith thought he had finally approached his ideal. Manhattan's New Friends of Music asked famed Mezzo-Soprano Jennie Tourel to give the new Marienleben its first performance. Jennie, as good as they come in skill and agility of voice, took a run over the score and gulped. Even after revision, the score was the most difficult Jennie had ever seen. But, she says, she couldn't shake off the beauty of Rilke's poems and the challenge of Hindemith's powerful music. With Pianist Erich Itor Kahn, she worked on it, finally, after...