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...midtown Manhattan apartment, Arranger Hershey Kay and Pop Composer Jerry Herman were hard at work on a musical comedy. Milk and Honey, which will open on Broadway next month. Herman rippled a tune on the piano. "That's for Ruth's [Mimi Benzell] first meeting with Philip [Robert Weede]," he said. "Bright, but a little wistful." Kay thought a moment, concluded that the melody called for woodwinds...
...modern U.S. cities will be permanently and happily solved. But little by little, Americans are learning to beat the frenzy with the imaginative use of modern techniques. One successful device: permanent television. Executives of the First National City Bank of New York, for example, use closed circuit television between midtown and Wall Street offices to avoid time-wasting and frustrating travel between two points that are 82 carbon-filled blocks apart...
Since the two locations are both "head" offices, the bank needed a way to coordinate executive operations and communications as if the offices were not really separated. The money committee, for instance, meets every morning. The bankers at the midtown offices at Park Avenue and 53rd Street assemble in their conference room while their colleagues on Wall Street gather in theirs. With cameras trained on each group, and with two TV screens picturing each scene, the members conduct their business as if they were together in one room. Staging plays no part in the meetings; the bankers do not even...
...years ago, a jury of art connoisseurs gathered in a midtown branch of a Manhattan bank. At that meeting, and four others, dozens of paintings and sculptures were paraded by, and the critics noted their opinions of the works by rating them from 0 to 3. There was occasional disagreement, but works getting more than 14 points were almost sure of winding up in a new home-the 60-story glass, steel and aluminum Chase Manhattan Bank building that opened last month near Wall Street (TIME, May 26). By last week, though the jury still had not used...
...resurreced at an air-conditioned Waldorf-Astoria luncheon, and a new queen was anointed by the mayor. Unable to locate a sinuous native girl to lend a straight face to the propaganda, the Visitors Bureau tapped radiant California-born Model Peggy Jacobsen, 22, summoned its hard-selling ex-president, Midtown Merchant Bernard Gimbel, to seal the deal with a kiss. Whatever his pitch may be, this was one time Gimbel would tell it to Macy's-along with everyone else...