Word: manhattan
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...main, however, Life With Mother, like Life With Father, is the broadly painted picture of a man and a marriage, the chronicle of a household and record of a class. Here again a rambunctious blusterer of Manhattan's horsecar era wages endless battle and suffers constant defeat, chiefly at the hands of a wife who flutters helplessly with cunning. Here again are growing boys and departing servants, the wall phones and other period touches, the breakfast tables and other permanent realities, of well-heeled bourgeois life...
...late 19th-Century period piece, My Romance tells of the great love between a young Manhattan clergyman and a not very moral Italian diva, and of how, putting love before sex, she nobly renounces him. As enacted by two gauche vocalists, this desire of the cloth for the flame seems about as erotic as compiling an index...
...Manhattan's massive Metropolitan Museum of Art lay awash this week in a show of pictures and ship models illustrating the history of the U.S. Navy. It was the un-arty kind of exhibition that brings in people who ordinarily would not bother to go into an art museum. It also included some topgallant...
Last week she had a cracking success on her hands. Already blanketing 64 Long Island towns, Newsday invaded the Huntington area* with a special edition, to cover more of the polo-playing, big-spending North Shore. The paper was carrying more ads than any Manhattan evening paper, and running in the black...
...everything from editorial cartoons to finishing touches on Newsday's new plant in Garden City, L.I. She works in her small office off the city room from 10:30 a.m. to cocktail time. From the vast Guggenheim chateau at Port Washington or their bandbox house in Manhattan, her deceptively lazy drawl often calls pink-cheeked Managing Editor Alan Hathway, a Daily News alumnus, at any hour of the night...