Word: manhattans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...walk out of the Union along with "our aggrieved brethren of the Slave States"; 2) abstain from joining any trouble-starred Southern Confederacy; and 3) declare itself a "free city," to be named Tri-lnsula for its islands of Manhattan, Staten and Long. The common council was all for it. But when South Carolina rebels fired on Fort Sumter, secession became a fighting word in the North, and nothing more was heard of Tri-lnsula...
...youthful (both are 25) writing pals are now living in Manhattan brownstones on incomes of about $75,000 a year (cash), but to hear them tell it, they are laboring on a Jailhouse rock. "At least 60% of our stuff is rock 'n' roll," laments Leiber, "and we're sick of it. But consumers dictate the market: kids nine to 14 make up our market, and this is the stuff they want." In massive doses, this is just what the pair has been giving them: Love Me (2,000,000 copies sold), Loving...
...authors of the new strip, Willie Woo, claim it is the first comic to be set to music. Each weekly sequence ends in a simple song composed by Marion Abeson, a Manhattan attorney's wife who has sold more than 5,000,000 records of her songs for children. Mrs. Abeson usually dreams up the strip continuity, too, hands her ideas over to Freelance Artist Marvin Friedman to draw...
...gathered, the men of the orchestra took their places, and promptly at 8 p.m. the conductor raised his baton. Moments later one more corner of Asia was introduced to the strange and wondrous sounds of a live Western symphony orchestra. Occasion: a first concert in Saigon, Viet Nam, by Manhattan's touring Little Orchestra Society...
Three years ago there was not a single antidiabetic drug that U.S. doctors could prescribe generally, and of two under test, one (carbutamide) was dropped for fear of liver damage. Diabetes victims were slaves to insulin and the needle. Last week 515 experts gathered in Manhattan under the auspices of the New York Academy of Sciences for the second symposium in seven months on the several drugs now being promoted: three on general prescription,* three being tested on patients under research safeguards...