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Manhattan's 57th Street is where artist meets buyers in the U.S. The art dealers, who have to charge up to 50% commission to pay 57th Street's high rents, and the art critics, who have to scurry all season to cover the Street's scores of important shows, both regard 57th as the yardstick of art. Last week the scurrying slowed, the season waned, and dealers and critics sat back to review the "trends...
...most expensive strip of real estate in the world (Manhattan's Fifth Avenue, between 42nd and 57th Streets) stand four churches. One of them is the Collegiate Church of St. Nicholas, whose 79-year-old, brownstone steeple is dwarfed by the neighboring towers of Rockefeller Center, the spires of St. Patrick's Cathedral...
Weather & Words. In her office on Manhattan's good-music row, West 57th Street, Minnie Guggenheimer spends her winters planning programs, signing soloists; her springs, tapping people for money; her summers, worrying about the weather. During the concert weeks she studies the skies as closely as a New England fishing captain, and keeps a wary eye on an office barometer. Every few minutes on cloudy days, she telephones the Weather Bureau...
...boss's 57th birthday, the mighty House of Bemberg was raided. In Buenos Aires last week, over the protests of Otto Bemberg, Argentine federal police ransacked the vaults, carted off records, securities, correspondence, bars of gold and sacks of coin from the Crédito Industrial y Comercial, banking center of the Bemberg empire. Later they frisked other Bemberg strongholds in Buenos Aires...
Independent Society members worry little about practical jokers. But last week an apocryphal tale of a joke on the Independents was causing chuckles on Manhattan's art-conscious 57th Street. According to the story, two wags put a paintbrush in the hands of an intelligent child of two, tried to enter the result in the Independent show. The painting was rejected. Reason: too academic...