Word: uptown
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Diane Baker), a wide-eyed kid from Colorado, gives her heart and other personal effects to a lowdown uptown type (Robert Evans) who promises to marry her. But on her wedding day, bridal bouquet in hand, she discovers that he is not driving her to the church but to the abortionist...
Sculptor Jacob Epstein, who died last week, was born 78 years ago into the brawling, colorful, self-contained world of Manhattan's Lower East Side. His Polish immigrant parents prospered and moved uptown, but young Epstein, by choice, swam with the rats in the East River, peered wistfully under the swinging doors of Bowery saloons, grew up belligerent and ravenous for experience. He wanted a life with size and shape, and that was what he forged for himself...
...dark, curly-cropped singer, that was the ultimate compliment. Yet the veteran of the small-time hotel and clubroom circuit has been around too long to toy with complacency. Edging into her late 30s, she wants desperately to move her career uptown to the Broadway stage. "I'd like dramatic singing parts," says she. "I'd like to do a show that has just one great song...
...enterprising Law School students have taken over the Mahogany Hall bar in uptown Boston. John C. Hancock 2L, who, according to the bar's publicist, "looks like a Supreme Court Justice," and Richard F. Plotka 3L, a longtime member of the Mahogany Hall Stompers, are the new entrepreneurs...
When the Ritz Carlton moved uptown to Madison Avene and 61st Street, they changed the name of the hotel to just plain Carlton. But the bar remained the Ritz Carlton Bar. It's not really a bar. It's a sprawling, antiseptic, and canaped cocktail lounge, staffed by maitres de and cluttered with bowls of peanuts...