Word: manhattan
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Barbara Hutton Troubetzkoy, 36, and husband Igor, 36, postponed their Christmas trip back to Manhattan from Paris on doctor's orders: the dime-store heiress and her auto-racing fourth husband had come down with nasty common colds...
Bernarr Macfadden, 80, and third wife Jonnie Lee, 43, his bride of eight months, postponed their Christmas trip from wintry Manhattan to Florida's beaches and a second honeymoon: Bernarr was tied up at the office until January...
Louis B. (Metro-Goldwyn-) Mayer, 63, and second wife Lorena, 41, his bride of two weeks, were right on the beat; breezing through their honeymoon, they arrived in Manhattan, saw several shows, stamped a few rumbas at the Stork Club...
...Union Square, New York City, looks like a run-down office building. For Painter Reginald Marsh it is an ivory tower, with its feet planted firmly in the Manhattan market place. Marsh, a retiring 50-year-old chunk of a man, spends whole days at his studio window on the top floor, surveys the square below through a telescope. The caved-in bums, bundled up news vendors and bumptious, pneumatic-looking shopgirls that catch his eye are swiftly translated into notebook sketches and filed away in a steel cabinet...
Marsh records Manhattan in the lusty, busty style that Hogarth and Thomas Rowlandson used to capture 18th Century London. He lacks Rowlandson's genius for caricature, but in draftsmanship, technical skill and honesty of observation Marsh is easily his peer...