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...
Born. To William Franklin ("Billy") Talbert, 31, fourth-ranking U.S. National Amateur tennis player and Davis Cupper, and second wife Nancy Pike Talbert, 26: their first child, a son; in Manhattan. Name: William Pike. Weight...
...Selznick Releasing Organization had turned down a chance to book the British-made The Fallen Idol into Manhattan's 6,000-seat Radio City Music Hall, instead waited patiently to put it into the 550-seat Sutton theater, where the British-made Quartet was in its 28th week...
...Kicked Butch? With these fairly familiar ingredients, Robert Molloy (Pride's Way) has apparently set out to write a novel that would be to a Manhattan boyhood what A Tree Grows in Brooklyn is to girlhood on the other side of the East River. All the embarrassments and humiliations of adolescence are here, with perhaps a few more than is customary: the pimples, the first long pants, the first dates, the first fights, the first sexual experiences, and the earnest attempts, quickly thwarted, to become a football star...
...Readers may feel somewhat the same way about The Best of Intentions. Its artificiality lies in the vagueness and unreality of Joe Moreton apart from, his adolescent and middle-aged embarrassments. The latter may have been real enough, but they are less than the whole of life, even in Manhattan...