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...President Reagan reeled off figures to demonstrate that his defense spending was comparatively not so large, reporters at the televised press conference began to titter. The President grew flustered, then spotted the cause. Nancy Reagan, 61, was in the wings with a cake for her husband's 72nd birthday. The assembled journalists launched into the appropriate chorus, with one quavering soloist adding, "How old are you?" Reagan sang back that it was "two days early." And while a few correspondents groused that the conference had been manipulated, the President happily cut slices out of something besides the budget...
...Jennifer Holliday has left the New York cast of Dreamgirls, then who is that large woman belting out one of her songs at Palsson's Supper Club on West 72nd Street? But wait a minute. The tune is the same, but the lyrics are just a little...
With a few exceptions, like Katharine Hepburn and Henry Fonda, most of the great figuresthe faces and the voices from the '30s and the '40sare either dead or in retirement. But as she celebrates her 72nd birthday this week, and her 50th year in films this year, Davis, trim, vigorous and in buoyant good health, is still busy. She won an Emmy last year playing a mother who finally reconciles with her daughter in a CBS special called Strangers; in her entire career she has probably never given a better or more poignant performance...
...million apartment house was considered a folly in the 1880s, when Entrepreneur Edward Clark broke ground west of Central Park at 72nd Street. Rich New Yorkers had never favored apartment living. The site was also so far north and west of fashionable society that it was nicknamed the Dakota after the remote Western territory. Yet Clark went ahead with his ersatz castle, variously described as German Renaissance and Victorian chateau. The architecture and appointments, as Birmingham puts it, were meant to "convey the impression that, though one might be living in an apartment house, one was really living...
Considering the blue-chip ballot, there was certainly nothing political about the decision. The vote of the 34 owners of a co-op at Manhattan's 19 East 72nd Street blackballed a $750,000 apartment sale to Richard Nixon. The former President had sought to purchase a nine-room penthouse in the expensive East Side high-rise so that he and his wife Pat could be closer to their children. But the other owners believed that the Nixons would have attracted curiosity seekers and destroyed what one blackballer called the ambiance of the building on the corner of Madison...