Word: manhattan
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...friend once pointed out that the New York Senator's own life was proof that it is possible to rise from the slums (his father was a janitor for a tenement house on Manhattan's East Side). Said Wagner bitterly: "That is the most God-awful bunk. I came through it, yes. That was luck, luck, luck. Think of the others...
...DiMaggio's friends were worried about him. For days in a row, he shut himself up in his midtown Manhattan hotel and brooded. He watched ballgames by television; the semimonthly installments on his $90,000-a-year salary seemed to increase his gloom. Waiting for his sore heel to heal had made easygoing, hard-playing Joe DiMaggio a different...
...Better known for such automotive research as the self-starter, high-test gasoline, etc. He also pioneered with artificial fever machines and research in chlorophyll. He is a co-director of Manhattan's famed Sloan-Kettering Institute for Cancer Research (TIME, June...
...explained in the current Bulletin of Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum, such fears were more than justified. Robbers did make off with his mummy, and for good measure, or for fear of the Master's ghost, they smashed his reserve head as well. Dug up by archaeologists in 1936, the pieces were plastered together again, finally sold to the Metropolitan. On exhibition at the museum last week, the proudly tilted head was one of the earliest examples of portrait sculpture known. The nostrils (to Egyptians the seat of life) had been carved with special care, presumably so that...
...perfectionist and he brought no more than a dozen of his meticulously etched plates to the standard that he demanded of himself. His finest works were featured last week in an exhibition of recently acquired prints at Washington's National Gallery. Bequeathed to the gallery by the late Manhattan collector R. Horace Gallatin...