Word: manhattans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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British playgoers have never been allowed to see the complete Victoria Regina, Broadway hit of 1935-36, because some of its characters represent living royalty. They missed the Negro miracle play, The Green Pastures, because its chief character was De Lawd. Officially, they never saw Manhattan's long-running Tobacco Road because of its shady morals...
...Manhattan last week, Pancho experimented with something new. He played tennis on the slick, wooden floor of the 7th Regiment Armory for the National Indoor Championship. Neither the strange surface nor the deceptive lighting unsettled him; he breezed easily through the early rounds. What annoyed him was the fact that he couldn't get enough sleep. "It isn't the tennis matches," he explained carefully, "just New York. It keeps me awake...
Died. Jack Kapp, 47, president and founder (1934) of Decca Records, Inc.; of a cerebral hemorrhage; in Manhattan. Kapp combined a shrewd eye for business (Decca was the first to make 35? records on a large scale) with a sharp ear for talent (he signed Bing Crosby, the Mills Brothers, Al Jolson, the Dorseys), to boom Decca, by 1946, into a $30 million-a-year business...
Died. Henry Noble Hall, 76, British-born veteran reporter, lecturer and author; after a stroke; in Manhattan. In 1946, suffering from a thyroid cancer, Hall offered himself as a human guinea pig. From glasses handed him in tongs at arm's length, he drank "Hiroshima Cocktails" (radioactive iodine from the Oak Ridge atom pile) which slowed the cancer. Knowing that the cure was incomplete, he had time to write detailed notes for the doctors...
...Magazine-see PRESS) and three-time Pulitzer Prizewinner: once for history (The Victory at Sea, 1920 co-authored with Rear Admiral William Sowden Sims), twice for biography (The Life and Letters of Walter H. Page, 1922; The Training of an American, 1928); of a heart ailment; in Manhattan...