Word: triborough
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...roar of auto traffic came down from New York's Triborough Bridge; airliners thundered overhead on the way out of La Guardia Airport; the loudspeakers squealed and squawked. But at Randall's Island, the East River playground used mostly for track meets and soccer matches, the disturbances did not seem to matter. In three days, 60,000 fans packed the stadium for the fourth annual Randall's Island Jazz Festival, and made it the world's biggest jam session, displacing even the famed Newport Festival. The jazz buffs had come (at up to $4.50 a ticket...
...more often than not, Edna Chase backed causes that succeeded. Vogue gave Humorist Dorothy Parker her first break, printed huge chunks of Novelist Thomas Wolfe's Niagaran prose, and evolved the elegantly stylized fashion ad. One day in 1937, while driving across New York's lofty Triborough Bridge, she conceived an annual issue celebrating the glories of America-steel and concrete as well as female. During World War II, Vogue sent off reporters to the battlefronts, later grimly printed atrocity pictures of Buchenwald. "Edna Chase wanted her readers to be able to pick up Vogue...
...million during 756 conventions. But Manhattan had a problem: the best exhibition hall was Grand Central Palace, a huge, outdated, twelve-story structure, which the Bureau of Internal Revenue took over in 1953. This week, at a cost of $35 million, Manhattan opened a new convention temple: the Triborough Bridge and Tunnel Authority's mammoth Coliseum at Columbus Circle squarely in the center of Manhattan Island. Tied in with three subways, it is easy to reach and has facilities to please even the most critical businessman...
...Columbus Circle were denounced by the influential Art News. Editor Alfred Frankfurter called the proposed design "utterly pedestrian," said the building would not fit into its surroundings, concluded that the whole project was "tragical, not comical." Frankfurter took to task Chairman Robert Moses of the city's Triborough Bridge and Tunnel Authority, which is underwriting the Coliseum, for the "completely dictatorial way [he] is imposing this design upon the public," suggested "recourse to law" to put a halt to the project. Replied Moses: "I am not going to get mad. We are going right ahead and build the Coliseum...
Peter Dow put on a tremendous finishing sprint Saturday afternoon at Triborough Stadium to take a surprise second in the IC4A 220 yard dash...