Word: midtown
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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First, balloon-shaped Meade Lux Lewis and Pete Johnson faced each other across grand pianos. Then came Erroll Garner, and finally big Art Tatum, his almost sightless eyes turned to the wall. If Birdland, Manhattan's midtown mecca of jive, wanted to put on a representative "parade" of jazz pianists last week, it could hardly have found four ivory ticklers with more varying styles...
Manhattanites seldom waste a glance on the towers of steel and stone that hem them in. They are content instead to let their eyes rest on rich objects displayed behind plate glass in the towers' ground-floor shops. Last week a new office building on midtown Park Avenue forced New Yorkers to look aloft for the simple reason that it has no shops and seems, to have no ground floor...
...coast to coast. For the cockney drivers, the first big test was to shake off a lifetime of keeping left in London's traffic; grimly they swung into right-hand U.S. traffic behind a police escort as they worked from the river over toward the welcoming ceremonies in midtown Manhattan...
Alan D. Gruskin, director of Manhattan's Midtown Galleries, was in a complaining mood: the abstractions that young painters are turning out these days are just "too academic-a formula too easy for the young painter to learn without ever having learned the fundamentals." Last week Gruskin put on a show that was about as fundamental as he could imagine. Its subject: the nude...
...reputedly made $2,500,000 in his 35-year singing career, Martinelli lives comfortably in a midtown Manhattan hotel. He coaches a little, currently has high hopes for two of his pupils. His family is scattered: his wife is in Italy to be near their children (one son, two daughters) and grandchildren-including five-month-old Giovanni Martinelli. But Giovanni the elder likes "to be here because of my season. I preserve at least the illusion of not being retired...