Word: manhattan
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sultry Cinemactress Elizabeth (Cat on a Hot Tin Roof) Taylor, 27, with virus pneumonia; torchy Songbird Judy (Over the Rainbow) Garland, 37,; with hepatitis; both comfortably hospitalized in Manhattan...
...Manhattan, Superjock Alan Freed, already fired by WABC radio, lost his second job in two weeks, was sacked by WNEW-TV. Showing up for his final broadcast last week, Freed waded through crowds of sobbing teenagers, comforted them ("Now don't cry"), accepted a bound scroll from a group of record distributors in thanks for his services. What services? Had he ever taken payola? No, said Freed, but to supplement his regular income of $1,200 a week he had served as a "consultant" for "the major record companies." During his last hours on WNEW, Freed danced dolefully with...
...Farther up the ladder roost more gaudily plumed stars of Singer Carroll's spotlighted world-Lena Home, Ella Fitzgerald, Harry Belafonte. That last rung of the climb is sometimes the trickiest, as countless slipped disks will testify. But when she moved into the Persian Room of Manhattan's Plaza Hotel last week, Diahann trailed the kind of notices no new female singer has received in years. Twice each night she demonstrated...
Everybody agreed that James Worley, head of the English department at big (1,160 students) Fox Lane High School near Mount Kisco, N.Y., was just about the finest teacher they knew. And academic standards are high in the suburban Westchester County area, home of many a well-heeled Manhattan commuter with an eye on Harvard for his son. But last week able, balding Teacher Worley, 38, was fired. Reason: he refused to file lesson plans with the front office two weeks ahead of class...
...thought of rest. Weather never daunts him . . . No one awes him." The paper, about to start a new series by Reporter Gleason, listed some of his exploits: he had discovered the cause of a fatal 1956 explosion on a Brooklyn pier (improperly stored explosives); he had uncovered skulduggery in Manhattan's slum-clearance program; he had broken a story about the New York Transit Authority's having illicitly taped meetings of the Motormen's Benevolent Association. Gene Gleason, 32, was indeed in the mold of the crusading reporter -until last week, when he suddenly found himself...