Renewal plans erase old neighborhoods for new high rise blocks
A letter to the editor laments HP and E urban renewal replacing stone houses with grim multi story apartments on 53rd Street. The writer warns of cultural loss, rising rents, and asks for remodeling over rebuilding to keep old neighborhoods livable near the University.
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HP & E
53Rd Street
Alcazar
Karl Marxhof
Budapest
Paris
Hanley’s
55Th Street
Spain
Letters defend 57th Street Art Fair and praise visitors
A reader argues the 57th Street Art Fair produced trash over the weekend but praises the organizing committee for rapid cleanup. The writer notes volunteers cleared gutters and swept streets while praising the many artists, decorations, and crowds from Hyde Park and beyond who returned despite rain.
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Jan Majde
57Th Street
Joe Bartz
Majde
United States
Middle West
Hyde Park
Broadway in Review: The Best Man Thurber Carnival and Fiorello
A theater critic notes three new Broadway shows before a theater strike. The Best Man stars Melvyn Douglas Lee Tracy and Frank Lovejoy in Vidal’s witty political drama. The Thurber Carnival features Tom Ewell and Paul Ford in Thurber sketches directed by Burgess Meredith. Fiorello celebrates LaGuardia’s rise with Tom Bosley in a rousing biographical musical arriving in Chicago this fall.
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New York
Europe
Forties
Broadway
Chicago
Fiorello
Stevenson
Truman
Nixon
Melvyn Douglas
Lee Tracy
Frank Lovejoy
Gore Vidal
Truman-Tracy
Mr. Vidal
Congress
F.D.R
Hyde Park
Mr. Ford
Vidict Box
Thurber
Desert
Philadelphia Athletics
Kansas City
Mr. Ewell
Macbeth
Grant
Lee
Little Flower
LaGuardia
Jerry Beck
Sheldon Barnick
Jerome Weidman
Tom Bosley
You Can't Buy Love With Foreign Aid Says Dienhart
Dienhart argues the U S has spent vast sums abroad since WWII to gain goodwill but faces universal disdain. He cites Ike's push for 4 5 billion in aid, protests in Europe Asia and Japan, and says Dulles meddled, Montgomery notes China and Russia hostility, and a possible long cold war with nuclear weapons. He calls for political will to end the folly.
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Ike
United States
the Orient
Eisenhower
Congress
Japan
England
France
Chamber of Deputies
Europe
Asia
South America
State Department
John Foster Dulles
Dulles
Red China
Marshal Montgomery
China
Russia
Montgomery
Mao Tze-tung
Communist Party
George C. Marshall
Marshall
Chiang Kai Shek
Formosa
Seventh Fleet
Nixon
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Robert Pollak
Pollack
Tom Ewell
Paul Ford
Peggy Casset
Appomattox
Walter Mitty
Burgess Meredith
John W. Dienhart
Dienhart
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