Word: manhattans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Manhattan's grimy St. Nicholas Arena, where many an aspiring club fighter has had his ears cauliflowered and his brains souffléed, the National Maritime Union's tough Joe Curran squared off again last week against his Communist rebels. But Joe, who kicked loose from the party line 2½ years ago, hardly got scratched. Delegates to the N.M.U.'s biennial convention amended the constitution to bar all Communists who apply for membership, just missed with a second amendment which would throw out the Reds already in the N.M.U...
Since pre-trial argument began in Manhattan's federal courthouse last January, court stenographers had typed up almost 20,000 pages of testimony. The defense had called 35 witnesses in 109 trial days, the Government 15 in 37 days; between them, opposing counsel had put 761 different exhibits into evidence. Judge Harold Medina had jailed five of the defendants and formally cited one defense lawyer for contempt (his punishment will be set after the verdict is returned...
...emissary from the isle of Stromboli named Monroe E. McDonald landed in Manhattan to tell an anxious nation the true story about Cinemactress Ingrid Bergman and Italy's gifted Director Roberto Rossellini. To Hearst's Manhattan Gossipist Cholly Knickerbocker, Lawyer McDonald confided that Ingrid's husband, Dr. Peter Lindstrom, was a strong, masterful man, to whom she had always given obedience and respect, but never true love. But when chubby, balding Director Rossellini came to Hollywood with a movie in mind, Ingrid was thrilled at the very idea of working for him. It was not until...
Maestro Arturo Toscanini landed on the dock in Manhattan, hale and chipper after a four-month sojourn in Italy and what he announced would be his last boat trip. "I enjoyed the voyage," admitted the 82-year-old perfectionist, but it took too long: from now on "I prefer air travel...
...capsule, Manhattan's Whitney Museum last week gave gallerygoers a history of 20th Century U.S. art. With 176 paintings and sculptures by Whitney-nurtured artists, it was staging a memorial exhibit for Juliana Force, until her death last year the museum's hardworking, fast-talking director...