The 'Fill-in'

OFFICE space was hard to find in 1947, especially inexpensive space, and the Grapevine desperately needed a home. (It was three years old and running in the red.) So an ad in the New York Times brought the Grapevine to Anne Rubinstein's brownstone home on lower Broadway. Anne's husband, a doctor, had his offices on the first floor; the family lived above; but the basement was for rent. Apparently, Anne liked the three girls on the Grapevine staff, for the magazine got the space for the grand sum of one hundred dollars a month.