Word: manhattan
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week artistic Manhattan primped and prinked for a distinguished guest. Ivan Mestrovic was expected to appear in person at an exhibition of his recent sculptures. Then he cabled from Paris where he now has a studio; he could not come; next autumn he would bring sketches for two new doors for St. Patrick's Cathedral in Manhattan...
Discontinued. The famed architectural firm of Carrere & Hastings (Manhattan), builders of New York Public Library, Arlington Memorial Amphitheatre to the Unknown Soldier. Reason: the death of Partner Thomas Hastings (TIME, Nov. 4). Partner John Merven Carrere died...
Divorced. George Palmer Putnam, Manhattan publisher; by Mrs. Dorothy Binney Putnam; at Reno. Grounds: failure to provide...
Though Benjamin Franklin was born in Boston (1706), he settled in Philadelphia, often visited Manhattan, spent some years in England, traveled on the Continent, reached the peak of his career in France. It is not inappropriate that this comprehensive and readable biography of the first U. S. world-citizen has been written by a Frenchman...
...shop. When Ben was twelve he was made apprentice to his older brother James, a printer; soon he was contributing anonymous articles, signed Mrs. Silence Dogood, to his brother's New England Courant. But Ben and James could not get along; at 17 Ben ran away, sailed to Manhattan, walked to Philadelphia. There he worked in the printing shop of one Keimer. He made many friends, among them Governor William Keith of Pennsylvania. At Keith's advice he went to London to finish his typographical education. In London "already there were three daily newspapers, the leading ones...