Word: taxiing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week, just a short subway or taxi ride from Times Square, a theatergoer could pay his money (ticket range: $1.15 to $4.50) and take his choice of a dozen productions. The three top hits: The Threepenny Opera, the sardonic satire of London's 19th century underworld taken from John Gay's The Beggar's Opera, which holds the record for longevity off-Broadway (560 performances); a revival of The Iceman Cometh, by Eugene O'Neill (225 performances); and Take a Giant Step, by Louis Peterson, another revival, which drew better reviews than the Broadway original...
...building, which is between Fifth and Sixth Avenues and runs from 44th to 45th Streets, is almost ideally located. It is only a short distance from Grand Central Station and from Times Square, and only a brief taxi or subway ride from the downtown financial district...
...exciting would happen," Lieut. Anthony Moorhouse, 20, wrote his family from Suez. Life after the cease-fire was getting monotonous for a young officer doing his national service with the British forces in Egypt. His father, a prosperous jam and preserves manufacturer from Leeds, read the letter in a taxi en route to a business engagement in London and smiled at his eldest son's restiveness. For the moment the headlines on the news vendor's sign just across the street seemed remote and unimportant. BRITISH OFFICER KIDNAPED IN PORT SAID, they read. It wasn't until...
...function for a long time. It started as a refuge for the "poor young clerks" Scott Fitzgerald wrote about; it evolved into a place of family entertainment. From the beginning, Founder Louis Brecker, a onetime Philadelphia accountant, was determined to put Roseland in a class beyond the average taxi dance hall. He publicized it as the "home of refined dancing" and installed two continuously playing orchestras (practically unheard of till then). He spotted and hired the comers in the dance-band world: Vincent Lopez, Harry James, Louis Armstrong, the Dorseys and Glenn Miller, brought in such headliners as Ted Lewis...
...Researchers Eleanor Johnson and Deirdre Mead Ryan, who covered the arrival of the refugees at Camp Kilmer (see "The Huddled Masses" in NATIONAL AFFAIRS), found them still too bewildered to talk readily. On the way to the camp from the New Brunswick railroad station, Researcher Johnson learned that her taxi driver was a native Hungarian. He taught her a few Hungarian words and phrases, and as soon as she tried them out on the refugees their reticence broke down immediately...