Word: manhattan
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Jones & Laughlin stock that Manhattan's Harry Schweitzer bought in 1955 at 38¾ is up to 60¾. His Continental Steel has gone from 33⅜ to 57¼, his Hecht Co. from 29¾ to 42⅝. All in all, the 895 shares in the Schweitzer portfolio were worth $21,000 and represented a handsome $12,000 profit, not to mention Harry's $1,600 savings accounts chunked together from dividends...
...President and Mrs. Eisenhower. In three days in Washington, Frondizi will dine with the Eisenhowers and Secretary of State Dulles. A longtime Congressman himself, he will address a joint session of Congress. Also on the ten-day itinerary: a weekend in colonial Williamsburg; a ticker-tape parade in Manhattan, talks with New York Governor Nelson Rockefeller, flying trips to Detroit and Chicago...
...trained eye zeroed in on the local frails, thirsted mightily for a stiffer mode of life ("Water to me is undrinkable"), and scribbled notebooks full of tidbits for a biography of Hero Fidel ("We're on a first-name basis"), paunchy Cinemactor Errol Flynn, 49, swashbuckled into Manhattan to praise his friend. "I've admired this man for at least two years," said Flynn, leaning heavily on the Disneylandish bar (fuchsia with pink lights) in his apartment. "There aren't many idealists left." But back in Havana, thoughts of "Reporter" Flynn, author of two barely remembered novels...
Harold Taylor of Sarah Lawrence, who in 1945 rode out of the West (the philosophy department of the University of Wisconsin) and, Lochinvar-like, captured the hearts of blue-jeaned undergraduates as the nation's youngest (30) college president. Handsome Harold Taylor skied, played tennis, taught classes at Manhattan's New School in his first years at Sarah Lawrence, throughout his term tossed off opinions ("It's important that someone raise some hell with philosophy") as John D. Rockefeller Sr. passed out dimes. He ran his college well, but had to give up teaching as administrative duties...
...Seesaw. A kind of prose duet between a couple of Manhattan blues singers. Uneven but amusing and touching...