Word: manhattans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Cinemactress Marilyn Monroe, 33, in a Manhattan hospital after "corrective surgery," presumably aimed at readying her for long-delayed motherhood; Trumpeter Louis ("Satchmo") Armstrong, 59, bedded in Spoleto, Italy with pneumonia aggravated by "chronic emphysema" (overstretched lung tissues) ; Presidential Press Secretary James
...imported his parents, his brothers, his sister, his brother's fiancee and his own fiancee of five years' standing-in-waiting, Birgit Lundgren, a comely and compact brunette of 23. With Birgit on his mighty right arm, Johansson even made occasional forays into the nightclub whirl of Manhattan. In the gym Johansson worked hard on the bags, but treated his sparring partners with loving consideration. None seemed worthy of his right hand, and nobody even saw it in action. Self-appointed experts began to doubt that it had ever existed. JOHANSSON TALKS A GOOD FIGHT, sneered...
...scene last week was The Embers in Manhattan, but it could have been anywhere along the big-time jazz belt that stretches from New York to Chicago's London House to The Sands in Las Vegas. Slowly the tide of conversation washes back through the murky rooms, slowly Jonah works his muted way through the numbers his fans want to hear-Rose Room, 76 Trombones, Too Close for Comfort, and his signature, Mack the Knife. Throughout, Jonah juggles the symbols of his success-the bagful of mutes through which he makes his trumpet whisper and wail, growl, shiver...
...everybody talks about the weather, and everybody tries to do something different about it. Television weather shows range from Milwaukee's Bill Carlsen squirting up a shaving-cream snowstorm to Manhattan's arch, smock-coated Tex Antoine drooping a cartoon mustache to pass the same word about rain. There have been politicians (Maryland's Senator John Marshall Butler once sponsored a nightly weather roundup as a campaign gimmick), puppets, and above all, dolls. As one of the largest sponsors of TV weather programs (36 on local stations in the East), the Atlantic Refining Co. has tried...
...would be retroactive to July 1, an issue on which previous negotiations had floundered. U.S. Steel Chairman Roger M. Blough, the man who has most to say about bargaining matters, and the heads of eleven other steel companies agreed to the new terms. This week negotiations were resumed at Manhattan's Hotel Roosevelt...