Word: turning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Highlights of the season are the House and University tourneys in late March and early April. Many of the men in the classes turn out for these festivals, which officially end the program for the year...
This fall the Key greeted visiting teams, glee clubs, and guests of the University in its first large-scale effort. According to Genn, the program was "very successful; it's been like touching things and seeing them turn to gold...
Unhappily the hobo's gift of the gab makes him tedious as well as fascinating; and the elderly capers, if picturesque at times, at other times turn rancid. Obviously pleased with his own joke, Playwright McEnroe sometimes lets it run on too long, sometimes lets it go too far. What tremendously braces The Silver Whistle's very shaky charm is José Ferrer's very assured performance. A master of florid roles, a born Cyrano de Bergeractor, Ferrer spouts and yarnspins with an air, never trades tinseled make-believe for drab reality...
...cooperative plan," used by landlords to unload hundreds of apartments on tenants at fat profits, last week turned up in the hotel business. Arnold Kirkeby, who has an eleven-hotel chain, announced a plan to turn Manhattan's elegant, 492-room Hampshire House into a coop, and thereby make a pretty penny. Kirkeby's company bought Hampshire House two years ago for $3,550,000 and later borrowed $3,350,000 on it. So far it has earned him less than $700,000 before taxes, which makes Kirkeby think "we are not making much headway...
...purchasers will have to pay maintenance charges, to 150 Central Park South, Inc., ranging from $1,404 to $10,374 a year. Kirkeby Operating Corp. will continue to run the hotel, its restaurants and bars. When owners are away, the management will rent the rooms and suites to transients, turn over the money to the individual owners...