Word: midtown
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Living Desert ("Really most unusual"), interviewed two sponsors of Manhattan's Blue Cotillion Ball ("When most people think of balls they are apt to think they are selfish-but this one is for a most worthy cause"), and ended her 25-minute show with a plug for a midtown restaurant ("It's wonderful for hand-holding"). Though not quite as sure of herself as Maggi McNellis and Jinx Falkenburg, Newcomer Sloan is already as determinedly chatty as any veteran lady of the airways...
...funds for a number of one-man helicopters. No foreign correspondent should be without one." Adds Senior Editor John Osborne (20,000 miles), who is a veteran Far East reporter: "I'd rather fly 5,000 miles over water with a reliable airline than walk five blocks through midtown Tokyo's incredibly crowded, noisy, freewheeling traffic...
...Manhattan, a midtown gallery was showing stained glass by 18 living Americans, many of them well-known painters. Among the standouts was a rectangular abstraction by I. (for Irene) Rice Pereira, done in two layers of glass whose straight lines seemed to shift their positions whenever the viewer shifted his. Equally original, but with more feeling, was Peter Ostuni's abstract evocation of three shadowy figures, composed mainly of cracked plaques and crushed chunks of colored glass melted directly onto a white pane...
...keep something safe, as Edgar Allan Poe pointed out in The Purloined Letter, is to put it where everyone can see it. Taking a leaf from Poe's book, Manhattan's Manufacturers Trust Co. last week showed off the design of a "glass house" for its new midtown branch, planned so that everyone will be able to see everything...
...working on a special U.S. Air Force project, Darling flatly refused to say whether or not he is or ever was a Communist. He also refused to answer such questions as whether or not he had access to classified information, whether he had ever belonged to the Midtown Club of the Communist Party in Detroit, or whether he knew of any Communist cell now operating at Ohio State. "I have," said the professor later, "never done and shall never do anything disloyal and against the interests of my country." Ohio State's President Howard L. Bevis announced that Darling...