Word: manhattan
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Opera Singer Kirsten Flagstad had to take vinegar with her tea. Manhattan's Metropolitan, which had snubbed her as a suspected Nazi sympathizer during her first postwar visits to the U.S. in 1947-48, came up with an offer for next season (she turned it down because of previous concert bookings). Meanwhile, in San Francisco, trustees of the War Memorial Opera House canceled her four performances scheduled for this fall, "because of the controversial character of her public appearances elsewhere in the United States...
...West sued Manhattan's Hotel Chatham for $250,000; she wanted compensation, she said, for the broken ankle suffered in a nasty fall on a bath mat last February. Mae claimed the injury has kept her show, Diamond Lil, closed for nearly five months, and hence kept her from getting a $3,000-a-week salary...
When she was a week old, Sandy Kaplan had a wheeze, and sometimes her breathing made a sort of crowing noise. Doctors at Manhattan's Woman's Hospital knew there was something wrong with her, but did not know what. Her first day at home, Sandy turned white, then blue around the mouth, and almost suffocated. Her mother, a practicing attorney, learned to give Sandy only a couple of ounces of food at a time. That meant 20 feedings...
...Machinery, Equipment & Supplies of the Philadelphia Record . . ." It was in February 1947, during a Newspaper Guild strike, that Publisher J. David Stern abruptly sold his Record, two Camden (N.J.) newspapers and a radio station for $12 million to the rival Philadelphia Bulletin. Pot-bellied Publisher Stern retired to a Manhattan penthouse to chain-smoke Optimo Dunbar cigars and dictate his memoirs. But son David III ("Tommy"), now 39, itched to get back in the business, ranged far & wide seeking a good buy. He found it in New Orleans. For $2,000,000, which his father helped him pay, Tommy last...
When Salvador Dali's ballet, Mad Tristan, opened in Manhattan in 1944, it provided one critic with "a 25-minute yawn." Most other balletgoers yawned, too, if not so long-windedly, and Mad Tristan flopped. Last week, the Grand Ballet de Monte Carlo had given it five performances in London. This time the madness proved catching...