Word: manhattans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...York's Mayor William O'Dwyer sailed from sunny Manhattan for an eleven-day vacation in sunny Havana...
...wonder was that Carnegie Hall was even half-filled. Few U.S. music lovers had ever heard of an English pianist with the single-note name of "Solomon." But the few who had heard him play once in Manhattan ten years ago, or had heard him since on imported records, would never have missed the chance to hear him again...
...Cockney All Right." This week Solomon would leave Manhattan as quietly as he had come. Carnegie audiences would hear him again next month after a concert in Canada. And now, having demonstrated that he was one of the world's great pianists, there were assurances that the rest of the U.S. would get to hear him before another ten years rolled...
Last week Manhattan gallerygoers could see some of the irascible Italian's best work. Centered around the collection of his sketches and drawings belonging to the late Mrs. J. P. Morgan, the exhibit included some of the decorative drawings which influenced English Architect-Decorator Robert Adam. Sharp-eyed observers could see details familiar, in the work of Furniture Designers Chippendale and Sheraton, Potter Josiah Wedgwood. Tangled in some of his lush and complicated grotesques were prototypes of the obelisks, griffins and clawed pedestals which sat so heavily in French drawing rooms of the First Empire. In the towering fagades...
...surefire way of getting publicity is to present some sort of award to an authentic celebrity. This tried & true device has been put to good use since 1939 by the Rev. Guy Emery Shipler, who edits and pressagents Manhattan's fortnightly, unofficial Episcopal magazine, The Churchman. The annual "Churchman Award" dinners have honored such eminent folk as Franklin Roosevelt, Bernard Baruch, General Eisenhower and Mme. Chiang Kaishek. Last year Editor Shipler got extra big publicity, but the wrong kind, when Secretary of State Marshall decided that he would rather not accept The Churchman's award. Last week, with...