Word: manhattans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Manhattan's Advertising Club on Park Avenue, a man was making a speech. Suddenly, to the amazement of the audience, the mike in front of the speaker's mouth burst into music...
...Station W2XBS in the Empire State Building, which two months ago began to broadcast the first regular television programs in the U. S. To the dismay of engineers, television's sound effects were picked up by many another unlikely gadget. Television interference also came in on numerous Manhattan radio receivers, including Journalist Dorothy Thompson's, over the whole dial...
Died. Clarence Mott Woolley Jr., 22, captain and outstanding player of Yale's 1939 polo team; of a brain concussion after a hard spill during a Brook League match; in Manhattan...
Fimplaner. The man who told Sonja Henie she could be another Garbo was an ebullient Irish-American, Dennis Russell Scanlan of St. Paul, who ran, and runs today, a prosperous surgical-instruments business in Sweden and Manhattan. In 1920 Scanlan had set Norway on its ear by staging an Oslo show for Chicago Skater Bobby McLean that grossed $76,000. The Henies and Mr. Scanlan saw something attractive in each other. In 1935 they put their heads together over Sonja. The Henie filmplaner were simple. Sonja was to go out in a blaze of amateur glory in the 1936 Olympics...
...great utility systems, giving United $150,000,000 in assets. They installed softspoken, aristocratic George Henry Howard as president of the new utility combine. Howard was one of the smartest graduates of the informal law school that the late Dwight Morrow ran at Simpson, Thacher & Bartlett's Manhattan lawshop, before Morrow became a Morgan partner. Howard's best known contemporary in the Morrow schoolroom was his close friend, modest Floyd Bostwick Odium, with whom he collaborated in founding Atlas Corp., top-flight investment trust...