Word: manhattan
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...French film director who said that spoke from experience: he had worked with Painter Matisse on a movie short, A Visit with Henri Matisse, that had Manhattan theatergoers gaping last week...
Francis Henry Taylor presides over one of the world's biggest & best art collections. Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum, which he directs, bulges with a round half-million treasures. But the men who bought and sold them down the centuries, Taylor thinks, are almost as interesting as the works themselves. For twelve years he has been working in his spare time on a history of art-collecting from King Tut to Napoleon-the only work of its kind in English...
...Manhattan papers chose to ignore most of the story. But the New York Star added its bit of mystery. It told about a memo written by Cissie Patterson after a squabble with her cousin, the Chicago Tribune's Colonel Bertie McCormick, over management of the family's New York Daily News. Shortly before Cissie's death, said the Star, she wrote Bertie a memo that she was going to change her will...
Dirty Business. Jerome Vincent O'Grady, 38, a personable Manhattan lawyer and former G-man who spends most of his working life at the New York tracks but never places a bet, is boss of Pinkerton's New York Racing Service. Since April, when the racing season started, O'Grady and his 300-odd P-men have ejected, or warned, about 500 bookies at Belmont, Jamaica, Aqueduct and Saratoga. For this and other services, New York's racing associations pay the Pinkerton agency about $1,000,000 a year...
...Rockefeller, 36, oilman grandson of the late John D., and Barbara Paul Sears ("Bobo") Rockefeller, 32, blonde daughter of a coal miner, whose marriage to "America's most eligible bachelor" last Valentine's Day was the tabloid romance of the year: their first child, a son; in Manhattan. Name: Winthrop Paul. Weight...