Word: manhattans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...John D. Rockefeller had little schooling, but no individual has influenced U. S. education more than he. Through his second largest philanthropy, the General Education Board, he angeled Progressive Education. Prime monument to his influence is Manhattan's Lincoln School, which for 22 years has done more than any other institution to shape U. S. public schools. Last week progressive educators were abuzz about: i) an attempt to put Lincoln School quietly out of the way, 2) an attempt by a Rockefeller grandson to prevent...
...shows. Many night clubs smell of fresh paint, gleam with new chromium, prance with new legs, but the nocturnstiles are not clicking-while at the Fair such places as the French Pavilion, where the check for eight people may come to $90,. are jammed. Some of the entertainments which Manhattan's 135 night-club owners have put on for hoped-for Fair visitors...
...cool his throat, Wisecracker Milton Berle (Earl Carroll Vanities) serves as tireless, tedious Master of Ceremonies for such acts as Georgie Tapps's neat dancing, Harry Richman's loud singing, and Caribbean Rapture, a writhing dance to voodoo drums that is the best and warmest of Manhattan's tropical chorus spectacles...
...Swank. Manhattan's glamor spots are short on entertainment, long on drinking, atmosphere, names, the bill. Snooty, half filled with celebrities, half with celebrity-chasers, offering Lucullan food but not even the twang of a guitar, is Jack & Charlie's legendary "21." After midnight, debs, young Roosevelts, Beatrice Lillie, Tallulah Bankhead, lesser fry, haunt Sherman Billingsley's cool, decorative Stork Club. More on the Social Register side, less on the Who's Who, and both hard on the purse, are pugnacious John Perona's zebra-striped, rhumba-flavored El Morocco, the newer and elegant Fefe...
Swing. In small, low-ceiled, table-touching spots where there is hardly room enough to swing a cat, the "cats" swing the room late and loud. Headquarters for swing is Manhattan's sand Street with its solid block of night spots (during speakeasy days, an irate 5 2nd Street householder defensively posted a sign reading "Private House"). On 52nd Street is The Onyx Club, Swing's self-styled "cradle," where Crooner Maxine Sullivan hops things up; The Famous Door, where Trumpeter Louis Prima lays siege to the eardrums; Jack White's 18 Club, which goes...