Word: manhattans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...think something profoundly significant lies in the testimony of Benjamin Davis, one of the eleven Communists on trial in Manhattan, as reported in "Man & Automaton" [TIME, July...
...Window. Killers stalk a twelve-year-old witness (Bobby Driscoll) through a jungle of Manhattan tenements (TIME...
Remarried. Barney Ross, 40, onetime world's lightweight (1933-35) and welterweight (1934-38) boxing champion, now a Manhattan advertising man, who was awarded the Silver Star for heroism on Guadalcanal, won another battle in 1946 when he overcame an opium addiction picked up after his injuries in the Pacific; and second wife Cathy Hewlett Ross, 33, ex-showgirl who divorced him in 1946; in Del Mar, Calif...
...sort of role that Rudolph Valentino, the greatest movie lover of them all, would have enjoyed. The role: an immigrant Italian tango-dancer rises from a gardener's job in Manhattan's Central Park to the giddiest heights of Hollywood stardom, and then dies at the age of 31. But independent Producer Edward (The Count of Monte Cristo) Small sees the story as a box-office natural. For eleven years Small has been getting his name in the papers year in & year out by promising to film Valentino's life...
Director Henry Koster has told this gentle, humorous story with taste and a light touch. Best comedy bit: as the two nuns whiz through Manhattan in a borrowed jeep, Sister Margaret, the superbly efficient driver, explains to Sister Scholastica : "You'll notice, Sister, that I must signal to make a turn. It is the law." So saying, she makes a snappy U turn smack in the middle of Fifth Avenue, and parks on the curb in front of St. Patrick's Cathedral...