Word: midtown
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...answer was to start her own gallery in Greenwich Village. She soon staged what she believes to be the first U.S. "Christmas Exhibition," with prices ranging from $10 to $50 (on the installment plan). Last week, when her gallery - still dubbed the Downtown, although it has long since moved midtown -launched its 35th annual Christmas Exhibition with a price list from $35 to $1,000, a line of 30 people stood outside the door. "We keep our rich collectors away for this sale, or they'd come in and buy six paintings at a time," she says...
Dealers did not share the good sales equally. Atlanta's Beaudry Ford reported sales ahead of last year by one-third. Manhattan's Midtown Chevrolet had "the greatest sales since we have been in business," sold 500 cars in October and expects to sell more than 500 in November. But Los Angeles dealers were disappointed by slower than usual sales, and Tulsa reported new-car sales off 25% from three months...
...good measure, Tisch is also building two luxury motels on Eighth Avenue in midtown Manhattan, a third in Washington, D.C. If his new hotels live up to his standards, they will be lighter, gayer and more modern than most, will not try to ape foreign hotels. "An American waiter in a French-style hotel," says Tisch, "just doesn't look authentic...
...sleep in the U.N. garden or in Central Park!" Fidel threatened. Hammarskjold countered with a polite invitation to dinner. Then, while the whole Cuban crew was drinking its meal on the U.N. terrace, the Secretary-General rounded up an offer of free rooms at the convenient midtown Hotel Commodore...
...Manhattan, and Commodore Hotels, thus returning the cash to Webb & Knapp. With the purchase of the debentures, Webb & Knapp will have further control over Freedomland and an $18.5 million stake in it. The park will be run by officials appointed by the real estate firm. By taking over the midtown Manhattan hotels, Freedomland will have a year-round income, hopes to be able to offset hotel profits with playground losses...