Word: manhattan
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Between chores, newsmen called their families to break the bad news. Some began dialing other papers for jobs. But for many of the editorial crew of 101 it would be a tough winter; other Manhattan newspapers were in a cost-cutting mood...
...Lack of Bosses. Trim and youngish at 43, Editor Nichols makes $35,000 a year, and spends only seven months a year in his Manhattan office. The rest of the time he travels, on expense account, around the U.S. and Europe, picking up ideas. At home, on Park Avenue, he and his Czech-born wife Marie Thérèse, who speaks seven languages, entertain a babbling stream of foreign authors and artists, who are also tapped for ideas...
...atomic plants now abuilding will be safeguarded carefully. The pile at Brookhaven National Laboratory, Long Island, 65 miles east of Manhattan, will operate only when there is enough wind to dilute its radioactive cooling gases below the danger point. Elaborate studies are being made by the U.S. Geological Survey to make sure that no radioactive wastes get into Long Island's water supply. The "hot" uranium slugs from Brookhaven's pile will be put underground to keep them from making trouble...
...Weather Bureau has little faith in weather control. Last year the weathermen announced that they had tried seeding clouds with dry ice and found the trick does not work (TIME, Dec. 6). Last week the bureau's chief, Dr. Francis W. Reichelderfer, told a Manhattan meeting of the American Meteorological Society and the Institute of the Aeronautical Sciences that man-made weather is a very unreliable project. The dry ice method may work locally under special conditions, said Reichelderfer, but the physical forces in full-scale weather are too big to be affected...
...living room is no longer a place to talk, read or just sit in. Last week in Manhattan, Bloomingdale's unveiled this model room, that features six theaterlike chairs, each with its end table for drinks, food and ashtrays. When the TV program is over, the chairs can be pushed back against the wall and disguised as living-room sofas. If TV palls, a curtain behind the set conceals a screen for home movies. In case home movies should pall, a small puppet theater-under the television set-can be pulled out and put to work...