Word: 57th
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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This week summer ended in Argentina, and art sprouted. Along narrow, fashionable Calle Florida, Buenos Aires' 57th Street, dealers readied their galleries for their patrons' return from the beaches. Defying the seasons, Argentine art also sprouted some 7,000 miles north, in the uncertain March weather of Washington, D. C. Its greenhouse: the Barr Building, headquarters of the American Federation of Arts. To be displayed in Manhattan next month, it will bloom for a year (possibly two) on a coast-to-coast tour...
Tops in both prestige and sales from 1883 to 1939 was the American Art Association-Anderson Galleries, which auctioned over $160,000,000 worth of art. Every big U. S. art fancier knew its dignified building on Manhattan's esthetic 57th Street, its shrewdly-lit, velvet-draped auction stage. But spooks lurked behind that arras. Last summer the American Art Association-Anderson Galleries folded up for nonpayment of debts (TIME, Aug. 21). Last week its two partners gave Manhattan its best mystery story since Drug Dealer Frank Donald Coster (TIME. Dec. 19, 1938, et seq.). Tabloids christened...
...uninhibited wit, sloppy clothes and nocturnal habits have made him café society's own Dr. Johnson. A fabulous night owl, he prowls from 52nd Street's 21 to 57th Street's musical hangouts followed by an army of press agents, newsmen, vaudevillians and cinemactors, puts on high-powered conversational exhibitions with his good friend Playwright Sam Behrman, drops pearls of grit-edged humor for all who will listen...