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...Jane Amsterdam, Manhattan,inc.'s founding editor, quit in March after complaining about interference from Publisher (and Owner) D. Herbert Lipson. According to insiders, Lipson wanted Amsterdam to meet with advertisers and sought more control over covers. Felker's challenge will be not only to sustain Amsterdam's success but to get along with Lipson. Felker's track record with owners is mixed: after first approaching Media Mogul Rupert Murdoch to buy shares in New York in 1976, he bitterly fought Murdoch's purchase of the magazine. When Murdoch prevailed, Felker quit...
...Costello as a latter-day Buddy Holly who goes to meet Peggy Sue with lexicon in hand. His interpretation of Van Morrison's "Jackie Wilson Said" gave an easy swing to its companion, "Radio Sweetheart." And the way that the Beatles' "Hide Your Love Away" flowed out of "New Amsterdam" clearly displayed the desperation that inspired the Costello original. It was not ol' Blue Eyes, but ol' Blue Balls...
...dark cell, Anton meets a woman from the Resistance who has been wounded. She kisses his forehead to comfort him, unwittingly smearing him with blood and lipstick. Anton is released the next day to his surviving relatives in Amsterdam, but in a sense, he never completely washes away the blood and lipstick, as hard as he tries...
...adult Anton (Derek de Lint) tries to bury his past and his feelings. Tellingly, he becomes an anaesthetist. But history keeps intruding upon his life. The Korean War draft, the 1956 anti-communist riots in Amsterdam, the funeral of a famous Resistance leader in 1967, and the present-day anti-nuclear movement all strike Anton close to home, figuratively and literally...
...AMSTERDAM, N.Y.--Workers seeking victims thrown into a churning stream when an interstate highway bridge collapsed, throwing four vehicles into the water, recovered two bodies yesterday to bring the known death toll to three...