Word: midtown
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Leigh Ribble was disturbed. His Grace and Holy Trinity Church in midtown Richmond, Va. seemed to be doing well; its generally well-off Episcopal parishioners were better-than-average churchgoers and they were raising their children to be credits to the community. But earnest Rector Ribble, 48, who also edits the weekly Southern Churchman, had a growing sense that between him and his congregation there were "barriers of language, of plain ignorance and of lack of conviction...
Though mambo has a number of self-styled kings & queens (one of whom, Mexico's flame-haired Maria Antonieta Pons, was already pulling them into a midtown New York nightclub last week), Pérez Prado is its emperor. Discussing his creation, Pérez Prado explains: "I am a collector of cries and noises, elemental ones like seagulls on the shore, winds through the trees, men at work in a foundry. Mambo is a movement back to nature, by means of rhythms based on such cries and noises, and on simple joys...
Columbia's Campus has moved around Manhattan several times since the College founding date in 1752. At first on lower Manhattan, then in midtown, and now way up at Morningside Heights, the College has reflected the city's growth in its location. Some Columbia fans like to look forward to the day when the University will have the option of taking another step around town this time to Rockefeller Center. For Columbia owns the land on which the great Rockefeller buildings stand, and on the expiration, sometime around 2030, of the 99-year-old lease that gives Rockefeller the land...
...story U.N. Secretariat building, on midtown Manhattan's East River shore was almost completed last week and w.ork was beginning on the 59-nation General Assembly hall that will snuggle at its base. Conservative critics had been hard on the tall Secretariat, had compared its marble and glass severity to that of a shoebox or a sandwich set on edge (TIME, June 13). They were going to be equally rocked by the swaybacked Assembly hall...
Changing Face. The face of midtown was changing fast. The dark old stone mansion on Fifth Avenue, where for years old Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt stubbornly held her stately dinners within earshot of swirling shopping crowds and the snarl of Fifth Avenue buses, had been replaced by Crowell-Collier's new white office building. Next to Rockefeller Center, the Collegiate Church of St. Nicholas crumbled before the wrecking ball and plans for a new building for the Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Co. A great, bare office building was rising on the site of the Murray Hill Hotel, in whose Victorian...