Word: plazas
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Manhattan Adlai Stevenson sat at the desk in his Savoy-Plaza Hotel room and labored over a speech for Minnesota delivery later in the week. Through a connecting doorway, Stevenson could see staffers huddled around a television set (its audio turned low so as not to disturb him, watching Arthur Godfrey's morning program and awaiting the network break-in that would bring word of President Eisenhower's press conference). Until the news broke, Stevenson believed that Ike would not run again. Yet Stevenson was the candidate for the Democratic nomination most favorably affected by Eisenhower...
Soon after sunup the rest of the garrison was standing at attention in the treelined Plaza de Armas. Brigadier General Marcial Merino Pereyra, their commander, read off a manifesto explaining to his men why he had led them into rebellion against Strongman Manuel Odria. They would, he promised, "open the front door for democracy in Peru, and guarantee absolutely free elections." Townspeople gawked, then drifted off to work...
...star billing after 16 lost years of bottle-belting, plus nearly ten dry years spent climbing back to the heights, ex-Movie Musicomedienne and Autobiographer Lillian (I'll Cry Tomorrow) Roth, 45, was drawing dewy-eyed patrons and rave notices at Manhattan's prim Hotel Plaza. Between shows, where she belted out old songs she had made famous, e.g., When the Red, Red Robin Comes Bob, Bob, Bobbin' Along, vibrant Songstress Roth philosophized about her old problem. Hearing a report that Actress Diana Barrymore (TIME, Jan. 23) had spent only five weeks in a sanitarium (where...
...high noon one day last week, some 150 photographers, newsmen and news-hens in Manhattan's sedate Plaza Hotel began scrambling and clawing, cursing and groaning, to worm nearer to their common goal. All cameras converged on one of the least likely duos in cinematic history: Hollywood's Marilyn Monroe and Britain's Sir Laurence Olivier. Together in public for the first time, Marilyn, explosively protruding from a black velvet sheath, and Sir Laurence, with the ironic aplomb of a gentleman accidentally trapped in a powder room, confirmed the fact (TIME, Jan. 30) that they will...
...press conference in the Sheraton-Plaza Hotel immediately following his Harvard speech, the Tennessee Senator discussed his plans for the coming campaign...