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...stewardess was the only survivor of the crew of four. Amazingly, 36 of the 59 passengers got out alive. Four residents of the apartment house were killed. The Port of New York Authority closed down Newark Airport, one of the nation's busiest and best, to consider what fate and mechanical failures had done...
...Wright, "the best man on the floor" of the New York Stock Exchange. "The first moment we danced together . . . I knew that at last I was honestly, deeply in love." They were married, and fortified by the Wright millions, Cobina threw a succession of parties that made her the busiest hostess on the Sands Point-Palm Beach-Café Society circuit. At the same time, she dazzled Manhattan concert audiences with a recital mixture of popular soprano numbers and lavish costumes...
...Other Winchells. The busiest of these unpaid, unsung legmen, as the Post tells it, are Pressagents Ed Weiner, Curt Weinberg and Irving Hoffman. Weiner is the columnist's "lobbyist, contact-man, straight-man-about-town"; Hoffman is a columnist for the Hollywood Reporter; Weinberg was Singer Josephine Baker's drum beater until the Stork Club incident, then Weinberg hastily dropped her. Also chased from the Winchell closet was another figure that few other ghosts even knew about: Herman Klurfeld, 35, who sticks close to his Long Island home and is paid a reported $250 a week by Winchell...
Whenever Manhattan's key-hole columnists tire of puffing their friends or scalping their public enemies, they refresh their spirits by jealously skinning one another. Last week the knives came out with a vengeance. And, fittingly enough, Walter Winchell, who is the busiest scalper, this time got the closest skinning...
...16th Century heyday, the Imperial and Royal Institute of the Pietra Dura (Hard Stone) was one of the busiest places in Florence. The duties of its craftsmen members: turning out the intricate designs of inlaid marble and semiprecious stones with which the Medici loved to decorate their palaces and chapels. After the Medici, the art, known as stone intarsia, went out of fashion; but a handful of institute members kept its difficult technique alive, occupied themselves mainly with repairing intarsia objects in Florentine museums and copying the old-fashioned designs...