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Firehouse aims at fire fighters and their families, retired firemen, and fire buffs-an estimated audience of 2 million. Says Smith, who still works 40 hours a week answering alarms at Coop City in The Bronx: "The magazines written for firemen are all technical. They do nothing to reinforce a fireman's positive image about himself." To change that, Smith decided to find a publisher and start his own magazine. A friend introduced him to Bull, who had wanted to get out of the Voice ever since New York magazine's Clay Felker took it over...
...pages devoted to "The Creative Impulse" hold some wonderful portraiture; this is the old Life magazine at its best. Marianne Moore poses hesitantly at the Bronx Zoo, obviously more at home with the elephants behind her than the photographer in front of her. Edith Wharton is draped in elegant furs and lace. Here the magazine begins to make sense. Martha Graham and Twyla Tharp are placed opposite each other; Willa Cather, Edith Wharton, and Edna St. Vincent Millay share a page. The bond between these women is a real one of spirit and vision, not some strange stew concocted...
...dress. New York was everything that was wrong with citification: intellectual dandyism, supercilious radical chic in the penthouses, while the streets turned into a slough of welfare and crime. Limousines brought the anchor men to work, while welfare families-or landlords-burned down their own tenements in the South Bronx...
...Fifth Ave. at 53rd St.; Greenacre Park, 212 E. 51st St.; McGraw Hill Park, 48th St. west of Sixth Ave.), ambling across the footpaths of the 59th Street, Triboro and Brooklyn bridges, or riding one of the shaky, alpine cable cars that wobble across the length of the Bronx...
...problems begin right there. Although Billy has won the only Nobel Prize ever awarded in his field, neither he nor DeLillo can explain much about the nature of "zorgs," Twillig's epochal discovery. Aside from his ineffable talent, Billy is just a wisecracking teen-ager from The Bronx...