Word: manhattan
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Manhattan's Bloomingdale's puffed such items as quilted skirts, velveteen trousers (for "after skiing"), and powder-blue parkas embroidered with Alpine flowers described as "too pretty to be tucked in." At Saks Fifth Avenue, Sophie Gimbel paraded a ground-length after-skiing ensemble with stole (price...
Over the past 20 years, Lord Macaulay's colossal misjudgment has been reversed. With the rediscovery of a vast cache of notes and letters that the portly biographer spent a lifetime scribbling, Boswell has gradually but increasingly been getting his due. Last week in Manhattan, a new stack of Boswelliana was made public for the first time...
...wrangling over Boswell's will, won half of them from a Scottish court. The other half, which had been awarded to the heirs of Boswell's granddaughter, he bought. Meanwhile, Malahide had yielded yet another batch-a cache as large as the first. Last week in Manhattan, Colonel Isham placed his latest acquisitions on display...
...Osbert and Edith materialized in Manhattan last month, for a lecture tour. It was her first, his second appearance...
...Luck of the Irish. Lightweight fun, lightly handled, about a leprechaun in Manhattan; with Cecil Kellaway, Anne Baxter, Tyrone Power (TIME...