Word: manhattan
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After warmups this week in Atlantic City, Manhattan and Chicago, Rockefeller's giant step will take him to Los Angeles on Nov. 12 for a luncheon speech before the World Affairs Council. By no coincidence, he will arrive in Los Angeles as the Western States Republican Conference assembles, and he has left time on his schedule for friendly, probing chats. Next day he will head for San Francisco to address the Press and Union League Club, then on to Salem, Ore. on Nov. 14 for a speech at Willamette University. At trail's end will be Oregon...
Though heavily populated Puerto Rico has little gang warfare and few juvenile delinquents, the Puerto Rican in Manhattan seems, from the headlines, to be responsible for a frightening wave of gang killing, drug addiction and thievery. Dissenting from this impression, and in fact seeing hope in the Puerto Rican migration, is the Rev. Joseph P. Fitzpatrick, S.J., a Fordham University associate professor of sociology. Last week at a conference in Puerto Rico of the National Association of Intergroup Relations Officials...
...this special Private Eye technique has opened up a new area of employment for talented extras, men who know how to simulate the absolute stillness of death (corpses are embarrassing when they breathe), who know how to wear a cop's uniform with ease. On location in Manhattan, actor cops get up to $100 for a day's work ($22.05 if they have no lines). Real New York policemen pound their beats for salaries starting...
Career (Hal Wallis; Paramount), the film version of James Lee's off-Broadway hit of 1957, tells the story of a stage-struck ex-soldier (Anthony Franciosa) from Lansing, Mich, who heads for Manhattan after World War II to become an actor. He imagines himself going from hit to hit, but unfortunately he staggers from cliche to cliche. For six months he lives in the inevitable cold-water flat with an orange crate for an icebox, and walks the streets from one tryout to another. Nothing doing. Then a talk-big, pay-small type Dean Martin) gives...
...20th Century-Fox). In a sneak preview of this film at a Manhattan movie theater, a woman in the roped-off guest section raised her voice in the dark to cry: "Good heavens, how could Hank have accepted such a role?" There on the screen, prancing awkwardly in mandarin robes, flamenco suits, a clown costume, a silly goatee, was Henry Fonda in the role of Willie Bauché, Hollywood producer-director-writer-actor and the most elaborate phony since the big bad wolf...