Word: manhattan
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...document of the frightened fascination with which some writers regard Hollywood, as if it were a basketful of hypnotizing snakes. In The Velvet Alley, produced on CBS' Playhouse 90, TV Playwright Rod Serling told the story of a struggling 42-year-old TV playwright from Manhattan named Ernie Pandish, who sells a script and overnight becomes rich, famous and an s.o.b. Where once he listened to music while he worked (he apparently owned only one phonograph record, Swan Lake), now the only music heard is the snarling of his ego. He berates his wife (rather justly, it seemed...
...silent Reporter Murrow, Manhattan wags were offering him this wry consolation: "Confucius say, 'Man who walks through whorehouse is sure to be misunderstood...
...annual reading of the U.S. economy, the National Industrial Conference Board last week assembled business leaders at "Manhattan's Hotel Commodore. Their theme: "Recovery: how strong, how long?" Their conclusion: recovery should continue well into 1959. Even as they met, there were indications that while some parts of the economy have stopped to catch their breath, others continued to spring along in a sort of relay race...
Lewis Gruber is a crack salesman whose single, all-consuming passion is tobacco. There is little else he can talk about, little else that interests him. When dining in Manhattan restaurants, he passes out Kents to neighboring tables. At poker and pinochle (he is an indifferent player), he shuffles out samples of new cigarette blends for informal taste polls. His other pleasures are simple, though his tastes are rich. He dresses expensively, favors dark blue suits and blue or grey silk ties that blend well with his heavy-lidded, blue-grey eyes, tans his skin under a sun lamp, plays...
...Seesaw. A couple of emotional straphangers on a Manhattan shuttle train, rattling back and forth between love and neurotic despair. Uneven, but touching and amusing...