Word: manhattans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Manhattan Lawyer Grenville Clark, 76, as he received an A.B.A. gold medal for his book, World Peace Through Law: "I hope to continue to work on a feasible plan to substitute law for violence or the threat of it. It is lawyers' work, predominantly lawyers' work. The legal profession in every country in the world must be ultimately summoned to a great conference of lawyers if we are to succeed. The stake is so great the goal is worth the effort...
...known hospital insurance plan, desperately needs a shot in the arm to give it a nationwide growth spurt. And unless the shot is administered soon, Government control of all U.S. hospitals is only a matter of time. These were the blunt alternatives presented to the American Hospital Association in Manhattan last week by John R. Mannix, executive vice president of the Blue Cross of Northeast Ohio...
...also made the New York police blotter last week by getting in a scrape in front of Manhattan's Birdland jazz spot. According to the cops, Davis and fans were blocking the sidewalk, refused to heed an order to move on; in the scuffle Davis got blackjacked, was charged with assaulting a policeman, and had his performer's permit suspended...
Died. Roy Wright, 42. at 13 the youngest of the "Scottsboro boys," whose sensational 1931 trial* became a landmark in the struggle for Negro rights; by his own hand (pistol), after killing his wife in a quarrel; in Manhattan...
Died. Elizabeth Dodero Shannon, 45, onetime Ziegfeld showgirl (stage name: Betty Sundmark) who. while appearing in Monte Carlo Follies, met and married Argentine Shipping Magnate Alberto Dodero, became an international-set hostess and an intimate friend of Argentine Dictator Juan Peron and wife Eva; in Manhattan. To solidify her husband's personal-business relationship with Peron, Betty once stripped a diamond ring off her finger to give Eva when she admired...