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...lived in a mansion, full of gilt and marble, which John D. Rockefeller built years ago in West 54th Street for his son John D. Jr. She now dwells, and conducts prophetic services for a small band of followers in a lushly-furnished duplex studio in West 57th Street, a neighborhood in which nourish many swamis and faith-healers...
...prosecutor. . . . Shall I permit myself to be lynched to satisfy prejudice or personal ambition?" Last week Franklin D. Roosevelt and Jimmy Walker faced each other again. Mr. & Mrs. Walker paid a call at the White House (see cut). Ostensibly Jimmy went as lawyer-lobbyist for a long-projected "57th Street Bridge," which would connect New Jersey with Manhattan's 62nd Street. Outside the White House, Citizen Walker said, "[We were greeted] as cordially as anybody could expect to be greeted by the President...
...charge that it is childish, nothing so angers archers as the charge that their sport is effete, and the newspapers' habit of using almost no archery pictures except those of pretty girls. Actually, archery is among the most strenuous of pastimes. At the National Archery Association's 57th annual target meeting in Lancaster, Pa. last week, major object of attention was not pretty Jean A. Tenney of Clear Spring, Md., who won the women's championship on the meet's third day, but the 106-man shooting line for the 1937 men's championship...
...Fifteen years ago the vast bulk of the Metropolitan Museum, the cluster of dealers along Fifth Avenue and 57th Street, and pre-auction exhibits at the Anderson and American Art Galleries (since combined), were about all the art that a visitor to Manhattan could see. Since then, thanks to public-spirited tycoons, the art map of New York has spread and sprouted richly. Today an art-conscious visitor should not leave Manhattan without a pilgrimage that will cover more than ten miles, take him into some 100 institutions. Among the most important stops...
Last week the Allied Dental Council moved its headquarters from grubby lower Manhattan near Cooper Union to prosperous West 57th Street near Calvary Baptist Church. For the star attraction of their dedication program they invited non-Jewish Dr. Victor Hugo Sears to give them his first formal explanation of a new kind of false teeth...