Word: manhattan
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After eight months in office, Secretary of State Dean Acheson this week made his first comprehensive statement on U.S. policy toward Latin America. To the 700 members and guests of the Pan American Society who heard his speech at Manhattan's Hotel Roosevelt, it seemed more a reiteration of long-established principles than a blueprint...
Sonja Henie, 36, highly professional ice-skating star, and Winthrop Gardiner, 36, socialite sportsman, were married in Manhattan, at a small ceremony (there was a little trouble arranging for the church, since it was her second marriage and his fourth). Sonja was a few minutes late because of some last-minute fussing with her costume, a frilly, off-the shoulder affair of blue net and lace costing around $500-not including, of course, the halo hat of bogus egret feathers, blue lace gloves ("to take the place of sleeves"), a pearl and diamond necklace, diamond bracelet, diamond earrings...
...Manhattan, Publisher Bernarr ("Body Love") Macfadden had a hot tip on the presidency in 1952: "I see very clearly that the truly American and conservative Democrat Judge Harold R. Medina [is] headed for the White House...
...some of the balletomanes who packed Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera House last week for the opening of the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo, the wiry, sandy-haired little conductor who took the podium for the second ballet looked vaguely familiar. When he began to conduct, it was with some of the flapping firebird motions of Igor Stravinsky. But it was not Igor. It was his son, Soulima Stravinsky (TIME, July 26, 1948), who was making his U.S. debut as a conductor and composer...
Bandleader Artie Shaw had tried feeding long-hair music to shorthair audiences (in Manhattan's Bop City-TIME, April 25) and wound up, at least figuratively, "with egg on my face." But he had learned a lot: "Let's face it, I was being pretty rigid...