Word: manhattan
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...agreed to handle all of the Democratic Party's advertising and pressagentry during the 1960 national campaign. The California firm's acceptance marked the end of a long search by National Democratic Chairman Paul Butler, who had already been turned down by major ad agencies in Manhattan -because, so he said, they were fearful of offending big Republican customers...
...thought make it one of the few plays worth paying Broadway's orchestra-seat ransoms to see.... a masterpiece ... one of the most distinguished dramatic triumphs of the modern theatre ... the New York theatre crowd was jolted out of its sophistication. Milling at the intermission, filing through doors, Manhattan secretaries with their tweedy, nebulous fiances, asthmatic maiden aunts from New York, students and old gentlemen and matron dowagers were discussing innocence and evil and faith and love and what is guilt with a passion admirable in a college freshman.... a singular achievement, and complaints ... are profane...
Tiffany knew not what it had wrought. Its "entire stock" was one presentation putter, ordered by the partners of Parker & Co., a Manhattan aviation-insurance firm, to celebrate Managing Partner R. Leslie Cizek's 30th anniversary with the company. No sooner did the ad appear than Wall Streeters started burning up the phone clamoring for their very own gold putters. With a sigh, Tiffany Board Chairman Walter Hoving announced that the store had ordered more of the $1,475 clubs for the men who want everything. And that it also had a less expensive model in base metals, with...
...reports the tourist, "an angel all over the Krémlin." Decent Marxists, of course, are not supposed to believe in supernatural beings, but they might find it easier to believe in angels than in Eloise, the wildly implausible moppet who usually lives at Manhattan's Plaza Hotel with her nanny, dog Weenie and turtle Skipperdee. Two years ago her devoted biographers, Nightclub Comic Kay Thompson and Illustrator Hilary Knight, described how she cut a rug at Maxim's in Paris. In this, her fourth appearance, Eloise dons raccoon coat and diplomatic pout to travel to Moscow, where...
Conquest (CBS, 5-5:30 p.m.). Newscaster Charles Collingwood conducts a tour of the Rockefeller Institute in Manhattan, where Dr. René Dubos is conducting his own tour of The World...