Word: subway
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Proust on the Subway. The Voice listener is apt to hear a great many wide-eyed, breathless stories about New York. Arab listeners were recently offered (Allah only knows why) a broadcast on Central Park which furnished the following startling information: "If you drive in through one of the streets that cross the park from west to east, or vice versa, you will probably go down a number of circular roads, and as the roads wind, your car will follow, and in half an hour or so you are back at the same point from which you started...
Until last week, knife-pleated nylon materials were used mainly for such carriage-trade items as $50 nightgowns. Then, Dressmaker Henry Rosenfeld, who has built up a $19 million-a-year business by making carriage-trade dresses at subway prices, put nylon to his own uses. At his spring style show in Manhattan's Russeks, he showed off an all-over knife-pleated nylon dress for $19.95-and U.S. retailers have already snapped up 10,000. Also on view was a wallpaper-print voile for $14.95, already so popular that Rosenfeld has ordered one million yards of voile...
...Thomas E. Murray, a prominent Catholic layman and wealthy Manhattan engineer and inventor who ran New York City's big I.R.T. subway system for eight years. Murray, 58, was the first public trustee of John L. Lewis' multimillion-dollar United Mine Workers welfare fund until he tiffed with John L. and quit...
...scale lifeguard (he is 5 ft. 4 in., weighs 147 Ibs.). Trim, deeply tanned, with long, wavy blue-black hair and hot brown eyes, he wears a sweatshirt and corduroy slacks at home, does his own cooking. He is a solitary sort, finds relaxation in walking and riding the subway and seldom goes to parties, but when he is with people he is voluble and friendly. Three-fourths of his waking hours are devoted to work...
Eliot has its weak points, one of the chief one being that some of its rooms face out over the noisey alleyway behind the central kitchen and others look in the direction of the subway yards. On the other hand, Eliot does have a very attractive courtyard, and the large majority of the rooms are not troubled by the previous problems...