Word: manhattan
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Then he was rushed off the ship to begin a hectic churning through Manhattan's radio and television studios (he appeared on ten shows in eight days). Missionary Salau (rhymes with allow) is a feature writer's dream. His father was a headhunter, he wears odd clothes, he obligingly describes the wonders of Western civilization in pidgin English. Said he of an elevator ride: "Time me go inside one fella room. Missus he sock 'im one fella button. This bockis him get up. Belly belong me like come...
...Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum had raised a shout of joy last January over its purchase of a 15th Century painting of Saint Sebastian. Attributed to Andrea del Castagno, and authenticated by Renaissance Expert Bernard Berenson, it was one of the best pictures the museum had acquired in years...
...Metropolitan had bought the picture (for a reputed $200,000) from Knoedler's, a 57th Street gallery which had bought it "deliverable in Manhattan" from "someone" abroad. The diplomatic exchanges would take some time. Meanwhile Knoedler's wasn't saying who the "someone" was, and the museum held on to its saint...
...Edward Estlin) Cummings is a poet who is generally at odds with the world, and a painter who is at peace with nature. In the catalogue for his exhibition at a Manhattan gallery last week, Cummings expressed both attitudes in quick succession. ". . . Come let us adjust," he wrote, "until the whole world's an infrahuman ultrafamily of supersub-morons delightedly drowning in telejuke-movieradiovision." And he followed that bitter advice with the happy reminder that "Art is a question of being alive...
...bright-eyed little Negro girl from Keyport, NJ. rolled into Manhattan with a high-school diploma in her hand, and an idea in her head that she would become a "high dramatic soprano." But the big time was hard to break into: Juanita Hall was 35 before she padded onto a Broadway stage as Bloody Mary, the betel-chewing Tonkinese mama in South Pacific (TIME, April 18) and stole a considerable piece of that smash hit from Mary Martin and Ezio Pinza...