Word: manhattans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...years, Manhattan's jazz magazine Metronome has polled its predominantly youthful readers on their favorite shorthair music and musicians of the year. Last June, Metronome editors got more ambitious, set out to discover the sweet-and-swing favorites of "all time." Last week, the fans' ballots were...
...Angels. As usual, canny old (74) Lee Shubert, whose theatrical real-estate empire controls half of Manhattan's playhouses, was trying to keep ahead of the game. In 1948-49, he knew, radio and television had taken over five legitimate theaters. To keep his houses from gathering cobwebs, "Mister Lee" planned to import at least four plays from London and possibly produce some himself...
...roses and dozens of other bouquets around the room were a tribute to Wilson's first half-century in what G.E. calls its "family." Fifty years ago, at the age of twelve, young Charlie Wilson had come out of the slums of Manhattan's Hell's Kitchen to take a $3-a-week office boy's job with a company that later became part of G.E. Now it was Wilson's turn to get the same small, 50-year button that, as president, he had pinned on so many other G.E. oldtimers. Last week...
...Manhattan's George Magnani, president of Magnani Mannequins, displayed a fashion dummy that talks. Named Patty Petiteen, the mannequin will plug dresses for the ten to 14 age group. Sample sales talk: "Mother loves my Petiteen dresses because they need no alteration and have a money-back guarantee." The voice of the mannequin, developed by Audio-Visual Advertising Co., comes from a loudspeaker concealed inside the chest, and is synchronized with lip movements. Price: $284. ¶ Illinois Institute of Technology's Armour Research Foundation announced a cheap method for adding sound to 8-and 16-mm. home movies...
Married. Franklin Delano Roosevelt Jr., 35, third son of the late President, New Dealing freshman Representative from New York; and Suzanne Perrin, 28, blonde Manhattan socialite and exMarine; he for the second time; in Manhattan...