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...gain market share, the Arrow clothing company is resurrecting a venerable dandy: the Arrow Collar Man, advertising heartthrob of the flapper era. The image of an elegant Manhattan clubman was created in 1905, when the company had its headquarters in Troy, N.Y., by Illustrator J.C. Leyendecker. The Arrow man was a cult icon in the 1920s and was featured in a 1923 Broadway musical, Helen of Troy, New York. Arrow retired the figure in 1931. Now, an '80s version of the man-about-town, painted by Leroy Neiman, is the star in the latest Arrow ad campaign. Says Vice President...
Julia Ward Howe heard marching, singing soldiers beneath her Willard window and wrote the words for The Battle Hymn of the Republic. Walt Whitman aimed a sharp arrow at what he saw in the Willard...
...were strongly fastened on each side to the ground . . . I likewise felt several slender ligatures across my body, from my armpits to my thighs . . . I felt something alive moving on my left leg, which . . . I perceived to be a human creature not six inches high, with a bow and arrow in his hands...
...looking for less spiritual radical literature, Revolution Books (1 Arrow St.) has a collection of leftist and third world books which would do a Greenwich Village bookstore proud. Across the street, Asian Books (12 Arrow St.) stocks a large selection of books on Islamic and Asian topics...
...place where you'll never catch Bok is the Bow and Arrow Pub, (Bow Street next to Baskins Robbins) a rough and tumble bar where you can get drunk on very little money. Watered down beer when bought in bulk is not very expensive. There are a long list of rules outside the door, which you shouldn't break because if you do it is likely a very large man will break your nose...