Word: manhattan
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...spreading his wings." Last week Robinson had a new slogan: "The Angel's wings are clipped." To stir up business, he planned to send airplanes up over Chicago's ballparks, scattering $10 credit slips through the crowds. Elsewhere, other dealers had tried similar stunts in vain. Manhattan's Herman & Ross offered free television sets "with the next 25 cars we sell"-but sold none. Seven Dallas dealers lured 5,000 people to a joint used-car auction with a $1,000 giveaway show, but sold few cars...
...last year one of New York's liquor inspectors caught Manhattan Retailer Edward Sidney Levine with his Schenley Reserve down. Levine had slashed the price from $4.05 to $3.75 a fifth. That was less than he was permitted to sell it for under New York's "fair trade" law which, like price-fixing laws in 44 other states, permits manufacturers to set minimum retail prices...
Born. To Vera Zorina (Brigitta Hartwig Lieberson), 32, Berlin-born Norwegian prima ballerina turned musicomedienne (I Married an Angel, Louisiana Purchase), and Goddard Lieberson, 38, vice president and member of the board of directors of Columbia Records, Inc.: their second child, second son; in Manhattan. Name: Jonathan Sears. Weight...
Last fall, a field man reported to President Melvin that several dentists in his territory were excited over ammoniated dentifrices. Researchers at the University of Illinois and at Manhattan's Sydenham Hospital, testing the use of urea and dibasic ammonium phosphate to kill bacteria associated with tooth decay, had reported promising results...
Died. Neysa McMein Baragwanath, sixtyish, magazine-cover illustrator (Saturday Evening Post, Collier's, McCall's) and portrait artist whose Manhattan studio was once a famed meeting place for artists and writers (Dorothy Parker, Edna Ferber, the late Ring Lardner, Robert Benchley and Alexander Woollcott); following an operation; in Manhattan...