Word: manhattans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Both Boccioni and the Futurist movement died in World War I, but not the idea of breaking with the musty past. That persisted even during the Fascist passion for neoclassicism. Last week, visitors at Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art were getting their first good look at what the Italians had been up to all those years...
...Observed Manhattan's National City Bank: "The speed with which adjustments are moving may lead to a demonstration, earlier than the pessimists now expect, of the recuperative powers that rest in business itself...
...potential television market? One year ago, a Manhattan advertising agency, Newell-Emmett Co., picked a middle-sized city about 40 miles from Manhattan, dubbed it "Videotown" to keep its identity a secret, began keeping tab on the buying habits of its 40,000 citizens...
...last week gave Goodall a tongue-lashing: "A black eye for . . . fair-trade . . . A policy error of the first magnitude . . ." Goodall, said an association spokesman, ought to rebate the profits every retailer lost on the premature sales. Whoever was right, the shopper was getting the benefits; last week in Manhattan Gimbels offered men's tropical rayons...
Died. Harold H. Knerr, 66, longtime King Features cartoonist (The Katzenjammer Kids, since 1913); of a heart ailment; in Manhattan...