Word: manhattans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Such revolutionary tactics, the witnesses testified, were the subject of secret meetings, secret schools, gatherings at private apartments, were even discussed at such more or less open establishments as Manhattan's Jefferson School of Social Science...
...rickety, hotel-like old building had been a landmark on the rolling New Jersey countryside, just 50 miles from Manhattan, for more than a century. One of its walls had fallen out, its broad porches sagged, its faded green shutters seemed ready to disintegrate. Last week when an auctioneer called for bids on it to satisfy a court order, only one voice was raised. The buyer-one Carl After of Brooklyn-got the whole sprawling ruin and a handsome set of ghosts for only...
Card Expert Mrs. Ottilie H. Reilly introduced the game to Manhattan's Regency Club last spring, wrote scholarly articles about it for Vogue. The game has rapidly gained popularity in the U.S., but Hollywood, usually a fast town with a fad, is not yet convinced. Canasta was tried out recently at the Bel Air Country Club, and flopped. Reason: too intellectual...
...year ago last week, a gunman jumped from a black sedan in upper Manhattan, pumped three slugs into a boss stevedore named Tom Collentine, and got away. Along New York City's 771 miles of crime-ridden waterfront, the murder sent only a ripple of excitement. Most of the New York press gave the killing a good play and then went on to other news. But not the New York Sun. It set a man to digging out the story behind the story. Last week stocky, hard-digging Reporter Malcolm Malone ("Mike") Johnson got a well-earned Pulitzer Prize...
...months the presses of Manhattan's fallen Star (nee PM) had gathered dust. For four weeks, pudgy Theodore Olin Thackrey, ousted by his estranged wife Dolly from the New York Post Home News (TIME, April 18), had been an editor without a mouthpiece. Last week a way was found to employ both editor and presses. With money furnished by a generous backer, Ted Thackrey bought the Star's equipment, prepared to launch a new 10? morning tabloid in New York City next week. Its name: the Compass...