Word: manhattans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Closed Shop. But in 1929, when the team of Whitney & Force tried to close up shop and retire, they found to their chagrin that modern U.S. art was still not well enough established for Manhattan's crusty Metropolitan Museum to accept Mrs. Whitney's collection, even as a gift. Ruffled and angry, they decided to go into the museum business themselves with Mrs. Force as boss...
...Ortega y Gasset had started something, it seemed, when he descibed the evolution of painting as a steady march from external reality through the subjective to the "intrasubjective" (TIME, Aug. 22). Last week, twelve U.S. modernists had picked up Ortega's word, opened an "intrasubjective" show in Manhattan...
Last week, as they have ever since she opened in mid-month, the corks were popping (at $16 a bottle) in a chichi midtown Manhattan nightclub called the Versailles. To everyone who could crowd in, even the $6.50 filet mignon seemed a bargain when little (4 ft. 11 in., 90 Ibs.) Piaf ("The Sparrow") began to sing...
...blanks on any further bomb news from usually willing sources, the papers fell back on man-in-the-street interviews and unsubstantiated rumors from "reliable Swedish sources." Almost alone the Hearst papers made a try at spine-chilling; the New York Journal-American ran a half-page picture showing Manhattan engulfed in atomic "waves of death and havoc." Scripps-Howard's Newspaper Enterprise Association dug up an "exclusive" story: RUSSIA HAS 4 ATOM PLANTS. (N.E.A. got the tip from an "escaped Soviet industrial official.") The New York World-Telegram's scareheads on the story overshadowed advice...
...asked ourselves what we could do that the independent station could not do," said Barber, "and the answer was the Football Roundup." Instead of bringing a single big game to the air, the three-hour CBS Roundup (Sat. 2:30 p.m., E.S.T.) brings 20. From a master studio in Manhattan, Barber has direct wires to a group of five "live" stations, each covering a different sectional game as though it were a regular broadcast. Also, capsule summaries of lesser games are phoned in at intervals through the afternoon by some 12 to 15 on-the-spot reporters...