Word: manhattan
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Manhattan dealer advertised a "distinctive motor car, the only car of its kind available." Its engine was by Rolls-Royce, its body custom-made by Labourdette of France. Its total cost (in 1947): $44,000. It could be had today, the dealer said, for only...
When a man named Elie Nadelman died two years ago, his passing was barely noted. Last week Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art opened a retrospective show that went a long way to prove that Nadelman, who made two splashy successes, then tried to hide, had been one of the best sculptors the U.S. had seen...
...sculptor's restless mind was bound to lead him into new ways of expression. He moved to Manhattan and took it by storm in 1917 with an exhibition of a totally different kind: a roomful of carved comments on modern life. Now Nadelman's slimmed-down Venuses did high kicks, his Jupiters wore boiled shirts and derby hats, his Muses played the piano. Critic Henry McBride described the show as "culture to the breaking point." It all but sold...
...William Franklin ("Billy") Talbert, 30, National Tennis Doubles champ (the U.S. took the Davis Cup for the third straight year when he and Gardnar Mulloy helped beat Australia last month); and Nancy Pike, 25, onetime junior editor of Vogue; he for the second time, she for the first; in Manhattan...
Died. Richard W. Lawrence, 70, New York financier and Chamber of Commerce bigwig, onetime (1928-29) president of the National Republican Club; of a heart attack; in Manhattan...