Word: madison
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Barnum and Tex Rickard would have stared in envy. They had staged many a flamboyant spectacle during Madison Square Garden's 70-year history. But last week, in his red-carpeted, walnut-paneled president's office, John Reed Kilpatrick, 58, beamed happily over the biggest thing yet to come the Garden...
...between 58th and 60th Streets, at Columbus Circle). It will provide Manhattan with 1) the world's biggest convention hall, and 2) parking space for 2,000 cars. To finance the building, New York City's Triborough Bridge and Tunnel Authority will sell $25 million in bonds. Madison Square Garden Corp. will operate it under a 35-year lease which guarantees New York City $1,000,000 a year in rent...
Hauptfuhrer, who played in the East-West game in Madison Square Garden last night, placed tenth among League scorers this season with 138 points in 10 games...
What he promises but doesn't deliver (in either volume) is a "human" Madison. Perhaps no biographer could. The Father of the Constitution was once described as a man who never said or did an indiscreet thing. And though Brant is scornful of those who have established his hero as a "disembodied brain," he has exhumed nothing that resembles flesh & blood. Madison was a prodigious worker, a great student of government and one of the best-read men of his time. But most readers will find him a pretty cold fish who swam best in muddy political waters. Brant...
...brush up on his French, went so far as to ask former French Ambassador Bonnet to check a point for him in the French archives (Bonnet obliged). Brant's new researches haven't helped him to prove the "human qualities of mind and emotion" he claims for Madison, but they have made possible a solid job of history in an era once handsomely covered by Historian Henry Adams but neglected since...