Word: manhattans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Test Case. In Manhattan, Tavern Owner Lillian Wolfe joined a discussion of crime, assured two of her customers that "if this place were held up, I'd hand over every cent," promptly obliged when one of them pulled...
...interrogation of Author John P. Marquand for his cover story in this issue. In Marquand's case there was a great deal of controversial material to be gone over, and Gissen's and Miss Mehrtens' talks with him, which began in TIME'S offices in Manhattan, were by no means finished when it was time for the Marquands to go to Nassau for their winter vacation. So the conversations were continued in Nassau. The most successful of them took place the day that Author Marquand hired a sloop and conveyed Gissen and Miss Mehrtens...
When Books editor Gissen, who gets around as much as any good reporter, left John Marquand in Nassau to fly back to New York to write his story, the author asked to have lunch with him and Miss Mehrtens in Manhattan on the day TIME and the Marquand cover would appear on the newsstands. "Thinking about it on the way home," said Gissen, "it occurred to me that I would have to meet him with a copy of TIME in my hand and that that might turn out to be the bravest thing I've ever...
...Manhattan 44, City Coll. of New York...
...story concerns a Manhattan artist, Joseph Cotton, who is striving to find himself, and the, unreal Jenny, or Jennifer Jones, who becomes his inspiration. He meets her first in Central Park, notes her pre-World. War costume and later discovers the newspaper she is clutching dates from the turn of the century. As he grows to know her better, the artist becomes more wary of the ethereal quality of his friend and there are several good scenes as the two talk about the future and the past, one never believing the other, but never really doubting. His Portrait of Jenny...