Word: midtown
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...wanders down Broadway; his daughter falls in love in Central Park. Author Calmer has broken up this Manhattan idyll with four long interludes that are made up of snapshots of city life: quarreling tenement dwellers, lovers lying on the roof in the heat, card players in a midtown hotel, a pair of middle-aged Lesbians quarreling, a sailor picking up a girl. Main trouble with When Night Descends is that the brief snapshots break up the central story, are usually more interesting and original than the one they interrupt...
...Philadelphia Co. sold $200,000 worth of bonds of the midtown Sylvania Hotel when back taxes were unpaid. The company's President Thomas Shallcross Jr. admitted this violation of the law was "a very poor practice...
...Scotland, married Roswell Miller Jr. in 1919, when she was 22, he 24 and a Princeton undergraduate (Class of 1921). He was considered "an active man," theirs "a natural healthy union." They have four children-Louise C., Barbara, Margaret, Roswell III. Mr. Miller maintains a real-estate office in midtown Manhattan and a home adjacent to the garden of the Carnegie Fifth Avenue mansion. After Carnegie gave $190,000,000 to various philanthropies, $125,000,000 to the Carnegie Corporation and $10,000,000 to the United Kingdom Trust, $15,000,000 remained to be bequeathed...
...illustrated last week not alone by the insane vogue of The Music Goes 'Round And Around. Black pianist Thomas ("Fats") Waller, who can swing with the best of them when he wants to, arrived in Manhattan from Hollywood, gave a "recital" of jazz music 'at a midtown hotel under the auspices of Twentieth Century-Fox, for whom he had just helped make King of Burlesque, and who were anxious to cash in on the notoriety attending the burgeoning jazz movement...
...sloppy, unambitious burglar and package thief who became ruler of a great illegal beer distributing system in The Bronx, survived Repeal to go on into even more lucrative rackets. He was credited with running a waiters' union, a usurious system of small loans to the poor, several midtown night clubs in Manhattan. But the chief source of Flegenheimer's income was the policy game, the daily lottery which keeps most of Harlem's Negroes poor. Most players can bet only a few pennies at a time but total receipts run annually into the millions. On a table...