Word: midtown
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...Wakeman had dropped from sight after The Hucksters, he might have been remembered as the Jack London of Manhattan's midtown. Instead, he kept on turning out novels, risking the law of averages. A Free Agent is the worst of a dreary descent. The author has lost his knack of writing badly well. Worse news, the hero is not world-wise but incredibly doltish, even allowing for the fact that he is supposed to be some kind of intelligence agent...
...them are rented at or near capacity (the overall vacancy rate is 3%). As the U.S.'s Headquarters City, New York seems to find eager customers for every new square foot. Only 30 years ago, the skeptics laughed derisively when John D. Rockefeller Jr. built Rockefeller Center in midtown. But now that real estate, foot for foot, is probably the most valuable in town...
Accept or Reject. Knowing hands pointed out that just after she handed in her resignation to the association at a meeting in midtown Manhattan's Daily News building, she scooted off to meet Powers at an uptown hotel. After nearly three hours, she emerged with Powers to announce that she would immediately begin calling some-but not all-of her 1,183 employees back to work under the old contracts. But it might not be that easy to get back in print on the cheap; the American Newspaper Guild advised its members to report for work, whether they were...
...sketch pad have traveled widely, and as he tends his USIA business Sivard has been able to pursue a novel art: painting the fronts of buildings and the people who go with them. Last week an engaging show of Sivard's sideline opened at Manhattan's Midtown Galleries...
...Rohe, but the glass box, except in the hands of a few highly talented men, had deteriorated into a cliché. He denounced "the dogma of rectangles" and the module system of building - "as monotonous as the Arabian desert." He deplored the "plastering of whole blocks of midtown New York with regimented patterns of glass and porcelain-enamel rectangles." Function, economy and order, said Yamasaki, were no longer enough. "My premise is that delight and reflection are ingredients which must be added. Unquestionably there is delight in our best new buildings, but this delight is in structural clarity, in proportion...