Word: plazas
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Beebe, who does a weekly column on metropolitan high life and works on the dramatic side of the Herald Tribune, gave Editor Devoe two manuscripts, introduced her to Photographer Jerome Zerbe who also proved useful. Until recently editorial offices were in Publisher Devoe's suite at the Savoy-Plaza Hotel. Publisher Devoe's residence is still Circleville. The money she risks is her own and her husband's. Contributors are paid cash in hand from a big roll of bills. Fanchon Devoe's 50,000 first print order is a cautious gambit toward Esquire...
...assemble red triangles, green circles, pink and lavender blobs by such non-objectivists as Vasily Kandinsky, Rudolf Bauer, Ladislaus Moholy-Nagy. As his collection grew he filled the bedroom of his handsome old colonial house in Charleston, S.C. with them, then redecorated his entire apartment in Manhattan's Plaza Hotel in robin's-egg blue, cork walls and homespun tapestries to hang the rest. Over his marble fireplace hangs old Mr. Guggenheim's favorite of the moment, one of a series of four arrangements of circles and lines by Rudolf Bauer entitled Tetraptychon...
...China Develop an Organized State" is the subject for the Foreign Policy Association's sixth luncheon discussion on Saturday at 1 o'clock in the Copley Plaza...
Charles Hayden lived quietly at Manhattan's Savoy-Plaza hotel, never married. His comparatively modest interest in charity began when he became interested in the Boy Scout Foundation of Greater New York. He learned enough of recreational work to want to contribute to a few social service agencies, in 1926 gave $100,000 for the site of an uptown Manhattan boys' club. "The businessmen . . . will not have accomplished their full duty," once said reticent Bachelor Hayden, "until there is a Boys' Club in every town . . . in which [boys] may have their God-given right to play...
Sculptor Paul Manship's gigantic fountain of a leaping Prometheus has stood patiently in the sunken plaza of Manhattan's Rockefeller Center for three years, the butt of more violent criticism, more half-baked humor than any Manhattan Statue since the erection of Frederick MacMonnies' Civic Virtue. Last week artisans at the Roman Bronze Works were putting finishing touches on one of the biggest jobs of bronze casting the company has ever handled, and workmen in Rockefeller Center were chopping holes in the Fifth Avenue pavement for a statue of Atlas destined to distract public attention from...