Word: weehawken
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...fill the back chairs of his orchestra. In San Francisco, conductors come and go at the whim of J. D. Zellerbach and his fearful board, and in Los Angeles, a conductor who does not take tea with "Buffie" Chandler is likely to find himself conducting in Weehawken...
...many ways, it took Marin 40 years to find himself. Raised by two maiden aunts in Weehawken. N.J. (his mother died nine days after his birth), he attended Stevens Institute of Technology for a year, drifted from job to job, spent six frustrating years trying to turn himself into an architect. Finally, he went to Paris to study art-and in 1909 had the luck to meet Photographer Edward Steichen. As soon as Steichen got back to Manhattan, he showed a few Marin watercolors to his old friend Alfred Stieglitz, whose now legendary gallery was the first to show such...
...Over the past 14 years, the Neo Gravure Printing Co. of Weehawken, N.J., which prints Sunday supplements for three New York papers and one in Boston, paid out $307,136.80 to preserve a truce with the Deliverers. Most of this went to Harold Gross, a convicted labor extortionist who runs a Teamster local in Miami, has been on Neo Gravure's payroll (together with four of his relatives) since 1945, after serving three years in the pen. But a share was slipped to a Longshoremen's Union official, Cornelius Noonan, who helped Gross engineer the shakedown...
...good to stay in the Poconos; he worked his way up from the chorus of Broadway musicals to leading roles with Ballet Theater. The wiry kid from Weehawken was uneasy in velvet doublets and ostrich plumes. But in comic and character roles he moved with an antic wit that charmed audiences, and soon he got his chance to take U.S. ballet out of doublets and put it in dungarees...
...Side Story, Jerome Robbins became a director as well as a choreographer. In both roles he remains a recorder of American urban ritual; his dances pulse with the rich, peculiar rhythms of youth on the make, mostly backstage or in back alleys, in the Waste Land as well as Weehawken. This month Manhattan is in the midst of what amounts to a Jerry Robbins festival: by next week his works will hold five stages simultaneously. The American Ballet Theater and New York City Ballet repertories boast Robbins creations; West Side Story and Bells Are Ringing are still packing them...