Word: yorke
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Francisco News. Oilmen, steelmen and Mayor Angelo J. Rossi got behind Mr. Dixon's original idea, which was to celebrate completion of San Francisco's two great bridges. Chosen president of the fair corporation was Leland W. Cutler, who is no gardenia-fragrant showman like New York's Grover Aloysius Whalen,* yet is just as sound a financier and heady planner. An engineer named William Peyton Day made cruise after patient cruise taking soundings of the shoals north of Yerba Buena (Goat) Island, perfecting the idea of pumping up out of the Bay's black bottom...
...York's fair covers 1,216½ acres...
Made for Each Other (United Artists-David Selznick) starts with a printed announcement on the screen: "Greater New York has a population of 7,434,346, among the least important of whom is. . . ." The camera cuts to a page of the Manhattan Telephone Directory and telescopes down on the name of "John Mason, lawyer." The opening action shot then shows Mason (James Stewart) pausing on his way to work to examine something he is carrying-a cabinet-size photograph of his wife (Carole Lombard...
Although Chicago dentists enthusiastically applauded Dr. Messinger, dentists in Manhattan who soon got wind of the performance roundly denounced it. "Tooth replantation is an archaic, long-abandoned dangerous practice," said the Greater New York Bureau for Dental Information, official spokesman for Manhattan members of the American Dental Association. A replanted tooth is a foreign body, the Bureau warned. Even if sterilized, and even if it stays put, it may cause infection...
Paderewski's real enthusiasms are all for the events and customs of the plush-upholstered '80s and '90s, for the theatre of Sarah Bernhardt, the court life of Victorian England, the restaurants of old New York. A recent indication of modern decadence, in Paderewski's eyes, was the fuss-&-feathers about Sir James Jeans's statement that there is no such thing as "touch" in piano playing - that a pianist will get the same tone whether he hits the key with his finger or the end of an umbrella. Says umbrella-thatched Paderewski...