Word: manhattans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Hollander home at Hollis, L.I., Lorin practices up to seven hours a day, somnolently watched by a cat named Cello that "especially likes Schumann." A student at Manhattan's Professional Children's School, Lorin takes his lessons with him when he is touring. Some day, he thinks, he would like to be a "wellrounded" musician on the order of Leonard Bernstein, whom he idolizes "except for his popular music-I can't appreciate that." Meantime, the problem in the Hollander family is to find a house with an extra room: father and son find they cannot practice...
...large segment of U.S. Protestantism is on the move this week-into a 19-story, $20 million Interchurch Center overlooking the Hudson River on Manhattan's culture-studded Morningside Heights...
Urged on by the National Council of Churches, the center has been two years abuilding on 32,000 sq. ft. of land made available by the Rockefellers. The National Council is pulling itself together from eight different locations in Manhattan to occupy four floors. Other large-scale tenants: the United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. (more than three floors), the Methodist Church (three floors), the Reformed Church in America, and the American Baptist Convention (one floor each). The Protestant Episcopal Church is planning to put up its own office building elsewhere in the city...
...edges of the newspaper business generally may not know is that in New York State it is a crime to offer or pay a bribe to a newsman, or for that matter, to any other sort of private-enterprise employee (including radio and TV workers). Last week in Manhattan, a pressagent named Robin ("Curly") Harris found out the hard way about the New York...
...going to be in the quad tomorrow to give out the answers to the Comparative Lit exam.") Officials of several colleges hinted that they would welcome his job applications. Among them: St. John's, the "great books" college in Annapolis, Md., where he took his B.A. In Manhattan, a new magazine called Leisure asked Van Doren to write a column titled "The Intellect at Leisure...