Word: manhattans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Tennessee cotton mill; his name got in the papers in a lawsuit over a $750,000 loan made to him by a New York businessman. It also turned up on the expense accounts of Howard Hughes' Rabelaisian contact man Johnny Meyer for parties in Palm Springs, Hollywood and Manhattan, complete with $100 notations for feminine "entertainment." (Krug indignantly called Meyer's accounts a "swindle...
...logic of it all was overpowering. Suppose he did have to settle for a small part in a western movie at first? Wouldn't they spot Artie Biggs for a surefire Roy Rogers when they saw his lightning draw and heard him sing the way he sang at Manhattan's St. Vincent Ferrer's school? Why should a kid with his talents stew through fourth grade, take Skippy and Lady out for their walks every night and waste away his life in a 66th Street flat-when Hollywood was right there, waiting...
...tomb of Ulysses S. Grant on Manhattan's Riverside Drive was closely guarded over the weekend by damyankee police who had heard that North Carolina rebels, in New York for the Notre Dame game, were planning to hoist the Confederate flag over the shrine...
...Walter Giblin, wife of a Manhattan broker and a two-day-a-week volunteer worker at Memorial Cancer Center for the last eight months, had worked out a stock and true answer for patients who tell her: "You know, you look just like Constance Talmadge, the silent movie star." Mrs. Giblin's answer: "That's good, because...
Author Morton Thompson (Joe, the Wounded Tennis Player) dignifies his novelized life of Semmelweis by steering clear of the soupy fantasies that make a lot of biographical fiction worthless. The Cry and the Covenant was read for errors by a leading Manhattan gynecologist, who found none. Even the inevitably idyllic love affair (at 38 Semmelweis married a girl of 18) is anchored firmly in fact. "An editor suggested that I have him fall in love sooner," reports Author Thompson. "I said, 'What do you want me to do-make him fall in love with an eleven-year-old girl...