Word: manhattan
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Deputy Premier Frol Romanovich Kozlov, 50, in the U.S. to open up a Soviet science, technology and culture exhibition in Manhattan (see BUSINESS), accompanied by a group of aides that included the big plane's designer, Andrei Tupolev. After a greeting from Soviet Ambassador Mikhail ("Smiling Mike") Menshikov, Kozlov said in Russian: "I am proud of this opportunity to visit your city and your wonderful country...
...friends for a long time. After she divorced him (because, as a friend says, "she found she didn't need a father, and wanted a husband"), she married Stage-TV Director Sidney Lumet, who was her own age, and resumed housekeeping in her ten-room duplex penthouse on Manhattan's fashionable Gracie Square. There, in the glow of dramatic opulence (red rugs, red chairs, white curtains, a pink passageway, a yellow door), she was transported to the heady world of upper Bohemianism in the company of the eliteniks of the theater. She painted (commendably), wrote poetry (passably), studied...
...Manhattan Manufacturer Herbert
...SHIRT PRICES will be boosted about 6% next month by Manhattan Shirt Co. on big-volume, $4 shirts. Other major makers are expected to follow move in industry's first major price boost on brand-name, medium-priced dress shirts since...
Died. Max Sherover, 70, founder (1929) and president of the Linguaphone Institute of America, which offers a $60 phonograph record course in any of 34 languages and such offbeat items as a Dormiphone, which drills a student in vocabulary while he sleeps; of a heart attack; in Manhattan. Polish-born Sherover once edited a socialist newspaper in Buffalo, published a five-language trade journal in Japan, built a Brooklyn hotel. Able to converse in twelve languages, he used to startle garrulous cab drivers by correctly guessing their birthplaces...