Word: manhattans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Elijah was a man lunching in a Manhattan sidestreet cafeteria. Day after day, Rowe found him eating there at noon, and for three weeks he returned to study each line and plane of the luncher's face. Artist and subject never exchanged a word. With his wife helping on the voluminous research needed for costumes and backgrounds, Painter Rowe worked steadily on his 32 illustrations for 3½ years. As a result, he has become deeply concerned with the Bible and the Christian faith. Said he last week: "I don't know how to explain it in words...
...artists named Maurer had shows in Manhattan. One was a 99-year-old curiosity, spruce and sprightly Louis Maurer, the last living Currier & Ives illustrator, whose traditional sporting prints and genre scenes had sold like hotcakes in the mid-19th Century. The other was slender, sad-eyed Alfred, his 62-year-old bachelor son, who painted hard-to-sell pictures of elongated, wistful shop girls and abstractions of heads and still lifes that were anything but traditional. Papa Maurer's show was a huge success to which son Alfy's was little more than a half-noticed footnote...
Attenuated Women. When Alfred came home in 1914, his father was horrified by his son's radical ideas and strangely colored landscapes, exiled him to a tiny back bedroom in the family's Manhattan brownstone. There, earnest, hard-working Alfred Maurer painted the attenuated young women with bedroom eyes, the wraiths of young shop girls and waitresses whom he met on inexpensive summer vacations up the Hudson. There, above the Victorian opulence of his father's rooms, he brooded over the composition of abstractions such as George Washington...
...miracle required his moving from Manhattan to Puerto Rico, where Duffy's Tavern is now tape-recorded and flown to the U.S. Last week Gardner was living in a rented mansion in San Juan's exclusive King's Court, hard at work on such ambitious sidelines as a movie (Pigs' Feet in Paris) and filmed television shorts...
...they were messengers of God . . .", Oursler drew a modern parallel. He told how George C. Boldt, a Philadelphia hotel man, once surrendered his own room to an elderly stranger and his wife, two years later had the kindness repaid when the stranger (William Waldorf Astor) made him manager of Manhattan's new Waldorf-Astoria Hotel...