Word: manhattan
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...acre estate left by her father-in-law, the late Alexander Pierce Anderson, inventor of Puffed Wheat and Puffed Rice. But she and her husband-Abstract Artist John Pierce Anderson-are hardly horny-handed tillers of the soil. Eugenie Anderson has traveled in Europe, studied music in Manhattan's Juilliard School. She has an intellectual's taste in art, books and music. Nevertheless, the appointment, which made her the first U.S. woman to become an ambassador, seemed like a pleasant bit of business for all concerned...
...Blair House as the guest of President Truman, two state dinners, a trip to Mount Vernon, tea with Supreme Court Justice Felix Frankfurter. Then came a quiet Sunday visit to Hyde Park to place a wreath on Franklin Roosevelt's grave, a ticker-tape parade through lower Manhattan. At the end of six days he was already beginning to feel overwhelmed. Said Pandit Nehru, smiling: "No one should have to see America for the first time...
Greta Garbo, who has ducked behind floppy hats, napkins and even her own hair to keep out of newscamera lenses, was bested by vigilant photographers on a Manhattan dock as she arrived from France...
...Manhattan, thousands packed the Metropolitan Opera House to hear his foremost living interpreter and Polish compatriot, Artur Rubinstein, play Chopin's incomparable mazurkas, polonaises, preludes, nocturnes and waltzes in a commemorative concert. In Paris, Pianist Alexander Brailowsky prepared for a similar recital at the Sorbonne. In London, BBC had Pianist Claudio Arrau in an all-Chopin program and Albert Hall had Robert Casadesus. In Chopin's native Warsaw, the great Chopin international piano competition was just winding up, and a new complete edition of Chopin's works, edited by Ignace Paderewski before his death, was coming...
Beckmann, who took out his U.S. citizenship papers last year, teaches at the Brooklyn Museum Art School two mornings a week, turns up at Manhattan's Plaza Hotel almost every afternoon at 5:00 for a cup of solitary coffee amidst the potted palms. "It is there," he says, "that I make my fantasies for my work." He often puts fish in his pictures "because I like fish, both to eat and to look at. Also they are symbols." What do they symbolize? "Geist-spirit," Beckmann replies positively. "But the man who looks at my pictures must figure them...