Word: manhattan
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...living slice of Americana," burbled a fashion-industry press release. The slice: the 47-model fashion display to be shown four times a day at the U.S. exhibition opening in Moscow late this week. But when 250 fashion editors of U.S. newspapers and magazines saw a preview in Manhattan last week, 41 of them signed a petition protesting that the half-hour show was "not representative of the American way of life...
...peaceful moral victory. Only a week had passed since Bunche disclosed that his 15-year-old son had been barred from membership in New York City's fashionable West Side Tennis Club (in Forest Hills, Queens) because of his race (TIME, July 20). Club President Wilfred Burglund, the Manhattan public relations man who had told Bunche that the club excludes Negroes and Jews, resigned last week amidst public clamor for his singed scalp. Then the club's governors were moved to announce: "It is the policy of the club to consider and accept members without regard to race...
...Manhattan radio station, Eleanor Roosevelt made a rare public utterance in Italian, a tongue that she first picked up long ago as a schoolgirl in England. Target of her somewhat critical shafts: Fellow Democrat Carmine Gerard De Sapio, leader of Manhattan's Tammany Hall, who might have followed Mrs. Roosevelt's remarks but scarcely replied in kind, because he speaks little Italian...
...thesis: every bird, beast and man produces some such cells at all times, but the body's defenses are usually strong enough to destroy them. That healthy people have a specific immunity against anybody else's cancer has been shown in dramatic tests by investigators from Manhattan's Sloan-Kettering Institute and Ohio State University on prisoner volunteers at Columbus' Ohio Penitentiary (TIME, Feb. 25, 1957)-Victims of advanced cancer have no immunity against their own or somebody else's cancer...
Peter De Vries had a lunch date in Manhattan recently with visiting British Novelist Kingsley Amis. De Vries spared no effort to round up a third for lunch, his New Yorker colleague, E. B. ("Andy"') White. The anticipated lunatic-fringe benefit: De Vries would breeze home to Westport, Conn, and tell his wife: "I had lunch today with Amis and Andy...