Word: manhattan
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Meanwhile, Dr. Dalldorf explained at the awards luncheon in Manhattan, the Coxsackie criminal has been shown to be an international syndicate of about 30 viruses in two groups. Some cause Iceland's pleurodynia, or "devil's grip," and Bornholm disease (named for the Danish island in the Baltic where it was first reported). Others cause a rapidly fatal inflammation of the heart muscle in the newborn. One sets off a severe sore throat unaptly named herpangina. Several behave like polio's little brothers. And, said Dr. Dalldorf, now with Sloan-Kettering Institute after a stint with...
...Manhattan TV critics (the World-Telegram's Harriet Van Horne and the Journal-American's Jack O'Brian) headlined their views identically: THE BIG PARTY is A BIG BORE. Fresh out of quiz programs to sponsor, Revlon this year is betting on 15 biweekly CBS variety shows, each to be laboriously dressed up to look like a party thrown by show folk for one another. Host of last week's opening brawl (in a make-believe Waldorf duplex) was Movie Idol Rock Hudson, who a few years ago inspired the title for a comedy called Will...
...fast spread of credit cards is based on one main assumption: most people are honest. Last week Joseph Robert Miraglia, 19, a $73-a-week office clerk from Manhattan's Lower East Side, showed what can happen when the assumption happens to be dead wrong. With a credit card and rubber checks cashed on the basis of credit-card identification, Miraglia told police he ran up $10,000 in hotel and travel bills and general high living in the U.S., Canada and Cuba in less than a month. Said Miraglia: "I always wanted to see the world...
...ease of getting nice things on the cuff first became plain to him when he got a limited credit card issued by the Chase Manhattan Bank. It permitted him to charge up to $300 in New York stores, pay it back at the rate of $25 a month. Last August he overdrew by $73, and the bank put a stop on further debt. Meanwhile, with his Chase card as a recommendation, Miraglia applied to the Diners' Club, American Express and Conrad Hilton's Carte Blanche for good-anywhere credit cards. Diners' and American Express turned him down...
...From Montreal he flew back to New York's Statler Hilton, used the card to cash checks, then went on to Las Vegas. There he shot dice at the same table with Frank Sinatra, who said: "Let the kid roll." He rolled and won $400, flew back to Manhattan and checked into the Henry Hudson Hotel in a $60-a-day room. He engaged it for a month to get the $30-a-day economy rate...