Word: manhattan
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...cloudy La Paz (alt. still 11,900 ft.) were in a turmoil, American officials were reported in hiding near the capital, pre-peregrination of personnel by plane from La Paz. Meanwhile, lordly Luce was still "unavailable for comment" in his 40th-floor office in the Time-Life Building in Manhattan's monument to money, Rockefeller Center...
Breakfast at Tiffany's, by Truman Capote. A charming if disorderly waif clings to the edge of her martini glass to keep from drowning in Manhattan...
Between appearances in Federal court in Manhattan last week. Fancy Financier Alexander L. Guterma (TIME, Feb. 23) took time out to pass his own sentence. Bleated he: "I'm a mortally wounded animal. I've been completely ruined and discredited before any determination by the courts." There was little doubt that Guterma, charged with fraud by SEC, spoke the truth...
Died. Timothy James Mara, 71, founder of the New York Football Giants, onetime Manhattan "betting commissioner" (i.e., bookie, when the practice was legal) who became one of the principal developers of pro football; of a heart attack; in Manhattan...
...Seesaw. A Manhattan hoyden and an Omaha lawyer pool their loneliness and put a funny, touching accent on love...