Word: manhattan
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Final Flourish. The next day General Clay climbed nervously into an open convertible, sat himself on the top of the back seat and rolled slowly up Broadway to receive Manhattan's traditional hero's welcome-the cheers of 250,000, a bath of ticker tape and confetti and a key to the city from Mayor William O'Dwyer...
...Jersey, the 40-theater Walter Reade chain had dropped newsreels experimentally in half a dozen houses without a single complaint from a customer; it decided to ease them, out gradually in other theaters. In Manhattan, the RKO chain admitted that it would try the same experiment in a handful of its 108 double-feature houses...
...last jobs done for RKO by Executive Producer Dore Schary before he joined MGM, it combines a neat story by Cornell Woolrich, competent playing by twelve-year-old Bobby Driscoll and four relatively unknown actors, and some expert camera work in the brownstone jungles of Manhattan's East Side tenements. Smoothly mortised and joined by Director Ted Tetzlaff and Producer Frederic Ullman Jr., The Window emerges as a fast little thriller full of grade A qualities...
Background Material. In Manhattan, when Waiter George Tucker was fired because his boss thought that Tucker's urge to write a novel might possibly embarrass patrons, New York State Mediation Board Arbitrator Sidney A. Wolff handed down the ruling for his reinstatement: "To deny a would-be author employment . . . might well stifle literary and creative genius...
...Histamine, a natural body chemical, has long been a medical whipping boy, blamed by some for allergies, stomach ulcers and migraine headaches. For 35 years psychiatrists have wondered about its role in mental disorders. They had one puzzling clue: people with psychoses had fewer allergies. Four years ago, three Manhattan brother-psychiatrists, Drs. Arthur, Mortimer and Raymond Sackler, began treating patients with histamine. Last year they were joined by Dr. Johan van Ophuijsen, 67, pioneer Dutch Freudian who has been in the U.S. since...