Word: manhattan
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...assume they are enjoying themselves, and why interfere?" commented Britain's Ernie Bevin, picketed by the American-Irish Minute Men of 1949 on the dock in Manhattan as he sailed for home. "I have a sort of fascination about pickets. I used to organize so many of them myself. They're all good lads, I expect...
This week a Manhattan gallery opened a show of Barbara Hepworth's paintings, including 20 studies of the operating theater. In them, what the artist calls "the beauty and skill of the hands, every gesture perfectly related to the mind," the intent eyes of doctors and nurses peering over their tightly drawn masks, were caught in delicate pencil-lines, illuminated with eerie blues, greens and yellows...
...last week, the flood had reached Manhattan. From 60 loudspeakers spotted throughout the wide halls and rabbit warrens of Grand Central Terminal, commuters were pursued by the Blue Danube and the persuasive commercial. F. LeMoyne Page, president of Terminal Broadcasting, Inc., promised to "permeate the whole place" with music broken every 2½ minutes by commercial spot-announcements. "Right now," said Page, '"we're experimenting with the difference in volume caused by the number of people. Ideally, we'd like to develop a 'thermostatic-type' control that would set the volume to the changing volume...
Never had Manhattan been more decisively invaded, and conquered, by ballet. Last week, 65 young British lads and lassies had bundled into two B.O.A.C. planes, bound for New York. The girls, uniformly pretty, were outfitted in the latest British fashion, in the forlorn hope that dollar-heavy dowagers in the U.S. might be persuaded that London, as well as Paris, can turn out smart women's clothes. But the major part of their mission was far from forlorn. This week, socialites, diplomats and balletomanes were flocking to the Metropolitan Opera House to see them. Even...
Born in the Lake Ontario village of Sacketts Harbor, N.Y. (pop. 1,900), Frances first started singing in the village church choir. After high school, and some singing lessons in nearby Watertown, she auditioned at Manhattan's Juilliard Graduate School, won a fellowship, graduated with the highest singing rating in her class. When she sang in audition for Laszlo Halasz last year, he broke his usual routine of saying just "Thank you" to hopeful auditioners, and signed her on the spot...