Word: manhattan
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Abbott Lawrence Lowell (Cambridge was full of old professors, and its reputation had sagged). By World War II, Conant had hired so many outstanding new professors and administrators that he was able to spend up to 75% of his time away from Harvard, organizing atomic scientists for the supersecret Manhattan Project...
...long convalescence to go to Japan. He was captivated by what he saw in its architecture: the interplay of light and shadow, the union of building and garden. He came back to cast a jaundiced eye on the serried ranks of glass boxes rising along the main streets of Manhattan and other major cities. "Our life gives promise of being spent in look-alike houses, look-alike automobiles and look-alike buildings," he warned his fellow architects...
Born. To Minot Frazier ("Mickey") Jelke, 30, paunchy margarine heir who operated a $50-$500 call-girl service out of his Manhattan apartment, spent 21 months behind bars for procuring; and Sylvia Eder, onetime silver-haired model, who filed for divorce last July, a second son; in Hollywood, Fla. Name: Minot Frazier II. The Jelkes were reconciled by the birth and are now, according to Sylvia, "very happy...
Died. S. Ralph Lazrus, 61, founder (1919), with his brothers Benjamin and Oscar, of Benrus Watch Co., one of the largest U.S. importers of Swiss watches; in Manhattan...
...jazz kick kept Byrd occupied only for a few years after his discharge from the Army. He studied at Manhattan's jazz-prone Hartnett National Music Studios, but was so enthralled by Spain's great classical guitarist, Andres Segovia, that he realized jazz was not his real love after all. The classics were the thing; for it, Byrd studied with Sophocles Papas, a friend of Segovia's, then in 1954 with Segovia himself in Siena, Italy...