Word: manhattan
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...full enchilada" when he arrives in Washington next week on a twelve-day state visit to the U.S. Ingredients : an airport greeting from President Dwight Eisenhower,*quarters at Blair House, a White House dinner party, an address to a joint session of Congress, a white tie dinner at Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria, and a Broadway ticker-tape parade, a visit to Monticello and to the New Salem, Ill. log cabin village where Lincoln lived as a young...
...impossible ... to discharge my duties as King . . . without the help and support of the woman I love ..." Millions listened to the abdication speech of Edward VIII, rebroadcast in England for the first time, as the Duke of Windsor danced away the evening with the woman he loved in a Manhattan nightspot...
...danger of severe outbreaks of paralytic poliomyelitis is greater this year than last because of public apathy about getting Salk shots, experts warned at a Manhattan meeting called by the National Health Council. Manufacturers are having to destroy tons of vaccine, outdated because of the demand lag. Most exposed age group: children under one year old (only 29% vaccinated), while fewer than 50% under five have had three shots. Best protected are children from five to 14. There is a big drop in vaccinations in the upper teens, but the worst is in the 20-39 age group with...
...first and best of American still-life painters was honored with his first one-man show, 134 years after his death in 1825. The exhibition, at Manhattan's Knoedler Galleries this week, afforded a 38-picture survey of Raphaelle Peale, the troubled son of a great father...
Died. Albert James ("Albie") Booth Jr., 51, Yale '32, 5-ft.7-in., 144-lb. football quarterback, dropkicker, All-America; of a heart attack; in Manhattan. Yale's Little Boy Blue scampered to fame against Army in 1929, outshining the great Chris Cagle, scoring three touchdowns and kicking three extra points as Yale overcame a 13-0 disadvantage to win 21-13. His playing career never left the high plane of its beginning. In his senior year Harvard entered the Yale game undefeated. After 57 minutes of hard, scoreless play, Captain Albie Booth took a snap from center, dropped...