Word: manhattan
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art, long a showcase for avant-garde painting and sculpture, slapped a court complaint on outspoken A. & P. Millionheir Huntington Hartford, who once wrote of the modern artist: "Engrossed with evil, [he] has wandered off to some streamlined inferno in which he has burned in effigy the normal people of the earth." Purpose of the complaint: to enjoin Hartford from dubbing his proposed $2,000,000 museum on Columbus Circle "The Gallery of Modern...
Sociologists customarily stalk elephantine generalities in exotic latitudes-from the South Seas to the cold-water jungles of Manhattan. In Daedalus, Big Game Sociologist David (The Lonely Crowd) Riesman breaks form by potshooting in his own backyard: the academic world. Samples of his mixed bag: ¶ Although some students maintain "a posture of contempt for business and a belief that, in contrast, teaching offers integrity, the life of the businessman and the life of the professor have become less and less distinct. The professor is no longer to be regarded as a stuffy fellow. He has become...
Gloria has never married or come close. Her interest in "my people" takes up so much of her time that last year she opened a restaurant called Brown's on Manhattan's 61st Street (last week's party site) just so "we could have our own place to meet." There she holds day-long confessionals, deflating outsize egos or nursing bruised ones. Says Gloria in her tumbling, still vaguely Brooklynese accent: "To me agenting is not selling lamps at Macy...
...best moments, reached comically irrational heights rare on TV. The hour-long (and far too slow-paced) show: Malice in Wonderland, by lampooning, lapidating S. J. Perelman, veteran of movie-writing stints (Around the World in 80 Days). Most of Malice enmeshed Dr. Randolph Kalbfus (Keenan Wynn) an innocent Manhattan psychoanalyst who goes to Hollywood as technical adviser on psychological movies. The doctor (crying, "I'm sorry, Sigmund!") is quickly seduced by Star Audrey Merridew (Julie Newmar), a wine-piney Georgia cracker who lives (on hush-puppies) with her cussing, Grant Wooden mother on Aorta Road. In time...
Before the doors of Manhattan's Coliseum, thousands of boating enthusiasts queued up for two blocks in a winter rain last week for the opening of the 49th National Motor Boat Show. Eying the crowd's ardor and remembering the sales figures from last year, exhibitors glowed with optimism. Despite the recession, Americans spent a record $2.1 billion on boating in 1958, and the nation's fun fleet grew to 7,330,000 boats-one for every seven families. With the number of active U.S. yachtsmen expanding by 2,000,000 a year (total: 37 million...