Word: manhattans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Broadway Star Mary (South Pacific) Martin, topped by a haircut that resembles a scrap of Persian lamb, stole the show at a Manhattan benefit for an animal hospital. Though her own dog was home sick, she picked up a perfect understudy-Coky, a miniature French poodle with a hairdo to match...
Arriving in Manhattan, Britain's crusty old (70) Conductor Sir Thomas Beecham had undergone no sea change. He planned a concert and lecture tour in the U.S. and Canada, including four stops in Texas, where, he intoned, "Western culture has arrived at its highest peak." Having disposed of these kind words, he turned on modern classical music: "A continuous succession of promissory notes. Composers are always promising but only keep on promising." What about bebop? Snapped Sir Thomas: " What the devil is that...
...Morgan offices at 23 Wall Street, Morgan Partner Thomas W. Lament called a council of war with five of Manhattan's biggest bankers: Charles E. Mitchell, William C. Potter, Albert H. Wiggin, Seward Prosser and George F. Baker Jr. (J. P. Morgan himself was in Europe.) About 1:30 p.m. they sent the "Morgan broker," Richard Whitney,* to the Stock Exchange's No. 2 Post, where U.S. Steel is traded. Cried Whitney: "I bid $205 for 25,000 shares of Steel." He moved on to other posts, cried other bids for huge blocks at the price...
Stroock & Co. had hardly wiped off the red ink from two bad years when Mrs. Murphy went to work. A graduate of Spring Valley (N.Y.) High School and Manhattan's Lusk Institute (now defunct), she learned fashion and fabrics by going to night school and hobnobbing with Manhattan's Seventh Avenue garment makers. Soon she was designing new weaves and color combinations and plugging the fleecy fabrics that go into the "Stroock Look." She was put in charge of advertising and publicity; when war came she helped supervise the company's mill at Newburgh, N.Y., was made...
Died. Ginette Neveu, 30, brilliant Paris-born violinist who was bravoed by critics after her Manhattan appearance two years ago; in a plane crash; in Sao Miguel, Azores (see FOREIGN NEWS...