Word: manhattan
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...center fell on his 135-lb. frame and broke three ribs. He studied law, served as a captain of infantry in World War I, and returned home to become an assistant U.S. attorney (in which job he convicted, among others, a young bootlegger named Sherman Billingsley, now owner of Manhattan's posh Stork Club...
...Composer Kurt Weill and Librettist Arnold Sundgaard, had become a sensational hit on the campus theater circuit all over the U.S. Written a year ago, it had already had some 80 separate productions. Last week its latest one was the biggest hit in the three-year history of Manhattan's zestful Lemonade Opera company...
...small new recording company in Manhattan is dedicated to that proposition. Last week, the Ethnic Folkways Library issued its fifth album, Music of Indonesia ($7.33)*. Ten more albums will be released in the fall...
...Manhattan's swelling Puerto Rican community has provided a lush bonanza tor nonscheduled U.S. airlines. For two years, many "non-skeds" had packed in their passengers like cattle to make their cut-rate fares profitable. Worse still in the same period there had been no less than four crashes, killing 117 people. The latest-and most serious-was six weeks ago when a Curtiss Commando plane operated by Strato-Freight, Inc. plunged into the Atlantic, killing 53 of its 81 occupants (TIME, June 20). After that, the Civil Aeronautics Administration decided to take a harder look...
...Window. Killers stalk a twelve-year-old witness (Bobby Driscoll) through a jungle of Manhattan tenements (TIME...