Word: uptown
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Manhattan last week, newspapers ran double-truck ads with the word "Go", in 15-in.-high type. The small type below explained that Ohrbach's famed and prosperous clothing supermarket was leaving its down-at-the-heels quarters on 14th Street to go 20 blocks uptown and "join the well-to-do company of Macy's and Gimbels...
...avant-garde-in years. In The Golden Apple, it offered the season's one really individual musical. And the Phoenix's Golden Apple, like the Theatre de Lys' End As a Man, like the Circle in the Square's Girl on the Via Flaminia, went uptown in time to Broadway. Other off-Broadway successes: Marc Blitzstein's English version of Kurt Weill's Threepenny Opera, Leslie Stevens' Bullfight, and-after a late opening the season before-The World of Sholem Aleichem...
...party rode uptown in Mr. Cohn's car, and Mr. Cohn continued his statement. Twice during the ride uptown and as Mr. Adams was getting out of the car, Senator McCarthy asked Mr. Adams to ask Secretary Stevens if the Secretary could find a way to assign Private Schine to New York...
...physics in new ways, the emblem of an insatiable intellect, has led him into the depths of his science at almost breakneck speed. When he was just starting high school in his native New York, he read unceasingly in physics. "I began to read systematically through the branch libraries uptown, gradually working my way downtown to the Public Library on 42nd Street." By the time Schwinger had graduated from high school, he had read thoroughly in atomic physics and quantum mechanics. His training in mathematics had been to read all that the Encyclopedia Britannica offered on that subject, which...
...inventory), began looking around for "a real big operator" to lease it to. At week's end, he thought he had just the operator: Manhattan's Ohrbach's (TIME, Dec. 13, 1948), a fast-growing Union Square store that has been thinking of moving uptown. The deal, said he, was "very close...