Word: manhattans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Window. A boy's-eye view of murder in a Manhattan tenement, with Bobby Driscoll (TIME...
Died. Mark Warnow, 47, topflight radio orchestra leader (MARCH OF TIME, We, the People), conductor (since 1937) of 493 broadcasts of Your Hit Parade; of a heart ailment; in Manhattan...
...watchdog of Wall Street, Securities & Exchange Commission Chairman Edmond M. Hanrahan, 44, decided that it was time to watch his family's financial security and his wife's health. Last week, "with great reluctance," he resigned from the $10,000-a-year job to return to the Manhattan law firm of Sullivan, Donovan & Heenehan as a partner. No politico, Hanrahan considered SEC a regulatory rather than a reform agency, thus got along fine with Wall Streeters. Besides, he understood Wall Street's problems and talked its language. During Hanrahan's reign as chairman, the Hoover Commission...
Died. George Clinton Densmore Odell, 83, onetime Columbia University professor of dramatic literature (he retired in 1939), compiler (since 1920) of a monumental (15 volumes, over 5,000,000 words) Annals of the New York Stage, a chronicle of the theater from 1750 through 1894; in Manhattan. He had planned one more volume to end his annals...
...Them Stew." While fans tried to adjust to the latest milestone of the little girl who grew up so fast, the gossips tried to piece out fragments of feverish rumor. In Manhattan, Crooner Johnny Johnston, 33, stoutly denied any romantic involvement with Shirley. In Hollywood, his wife. Cinemactress Kathryn Grayson, 26, admitted that she had exchanged harsh words with Shirley about Johnston but, she added, all that was over now. Both Johnston and his wife accused Professional Golfer Joe Kirkwood Jr., 28, who plays Joe Palooka on the screen, of trying to brew a romance between Shirley and Johnston...