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...York. Aiming point: Rockefeller Center. The circle of complete destruction would extend from Spuyten Duyvil to the Statue of Liberty, cover all Manhattan, Hoboken, Weehawken, large parts of The Bronx, Queens, Brooklyn and Jersey City...
Trunks Extra? In Washington, the ICC recommended that the ferry line between Weehawken, N.J. and Manhattan help meet higher operating costs by increasing the fare for uncrated elephants from...
Wedding in Weehawken. In 1934 white-maned Walter Damrosch visited St. Louis to guest-conduct the annual German singing societies Sängerjest, and was outraged to learn that a local soprano had been signed as one of the soloists. After a rehearsal of the Liebestod he mopped his brow excitedly,, kissed Traubel and said: "My dear, I brought...
...friend's house in Greenwich Village she met William Bass, a cheerful and rotund New Yorker who is now her business adviser. Both were already married,† but they got divorces and were married by the Mayor of Weehawken, N.J. in October 1938. Then came the hardest times of Helen Traubel's life. She and Bill were broke. In a dark two-room West syth Street apartment near Carnegie Hall they cooked occasional lamb stews, sometimes had to scrape up money for food by cashing in on their empty milk and soda-pop bottles. They visited the Central...
...Fancy Free's success has its 25-year-old choreographer in a state of amaze. Sharp-faced pint-sized Jerome Robbins a dancer with the Ballet Theatre since 1940, is featured in his own ballet together with Janet Reed. Born Jerome Rabinowitz, Robbins grew up in Weehawken, N.J., was in & out of little dance groups for six years without getting anywhere. He started plotting Fancy Free last June, got the New York Philharmonic's 25-year-old assistant conductor Leonard Bernstein to do the music. Now Hollywood and Broadway will not let Robbins alone. Says...