Word: manhattans
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Married. Paul McCartney, 26, last of the bachelor Beatles; and Linda Eastman, 27, honey-blonde American photographer and sister of Beatles Lawyer John Eastman, who met Paul at a news conference in Manhattan ten months ago; she for the second time; in a civil ceremony in London, enlivened somewhat by a covey of wounded birds wailing their anguish from behind a police cordon...
Died. Ben Shahn, 70, U.S. portraitist, poster maker, muralist and artistic polemicist; of a heart attack; in Manhattan. "Is there nothing to weep, about in this world any more?" the shaggy-bearded artist once asked. For him, the answer was always yes. Son of a Russian-born immigrant, Shahn was raised in a Brooklyn slum, and his proletarian vision was forged in the class-consciousness of the Depression. He employed elements of both Cubism and Surrealism in his own spare variant of social realism. In 1932 he won fame portraying the trial and execution of Sacco and Vanzetti. Thereafter...
...recalled, she precociously read "hundreds of books a year and every magazine, allowed or forbidden, that came into the house." By the age of 13 she was ghostwriting papers for members of a women's self-improvement society near her home in Bucks County, Pennsylvania. She arrived at Manhattan's Barnard College the very model of a liberated young woman with a passion for social reform...
This week West Germans will have an opportunity to examine yet another side of Kolář's talent at Bremen's Overbeck Gesellschaft Gallery, which will display 180 examples of his "poems of object." The show will move on to Ulm and Munich, and Manhattan's Willard Gallery plans to exhibit his work this spring. It is memorable not only be cause Kolář reveals himself as a gifted collagist, but also because contemporary artists with any degree of originality at all have conspicuously failed to develop in Communist countries...
Next, Crosby learned that the Chase Manhattan Bank controlled 1,500,000 more shares of Pan Am. He invited a number of Chase officers down to the Bahamas to inspect his Paradise Island complex of hotels and a gambling ca sino. The bankers thereupon agreed to sell their Pan Am stock, then worth about $39 million, for a complex pack age of Resorts' notes and warrants...