1960 Downtown Manhattan Ice Skating at Apartments

Ice Skating Rink Built Into Downtown Apartment
Midtown Manhattan seems an unusual spot for a private ice skating rink, but at 213 West 58th Street there's a 20 by 32-foot skating area built into the rear of a fashionable apartment building.  The owner, Alan Murray, a shoe manufacturer and ice-skating instructor, had the rink built into the site of an unused stable behind the building so his friends and students could take a turn on the ice without inconvenience or temperature worries.  An ice-making machine capable of freezing 10 tons of ice a day keeps the ice in shape, and Mr. Murray's apartment and offices are around and above the rink.  

The picture shows the host and his daughter as they watch the skaters from the apartment.

From December 1960 Popular Mechanics magazine

1940 Patriotic Strip-tease sends pictures for Army recruits

From Time magazine, Oct 7, 1940


ARMY
From Margie, With Love
Redheaded Margie ("Poor Man's Garbo") Hart is a strip-teaser who plays Manhattan's theatres and the Midwest burlesque houses.  This week she gave 62-year-old Major General William N. Haskell, commander of the 27th Division, New York National Guard, a shock.  Sent to the 27th were 50 autographed copies of Margie's "most vivacious" photograph with the promise of 4,500 more as soon as prints were ready.  Margie sent her mementos out of practically pure patriotism.  She wanted them distributed among the 27th Division, which will soon go into training far from the Manhattan "girlie" houses, at Anniston, Ala.

Said Margie:  "A little romance and sentiment help to while away a man's lonely hours.  I only wish I could do more for our soldiers...I do hope the generals won't give my picture to married men.  I don't want anybody to get the wrong idea."

Asked West Pointer Haskell:  "Who is Margie Hart?"  Someone told him. Across the package he scrawled "Refused," ordered the photos returned.