Word: dapper
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Bing Crosby picture. Steve plays a hapless sheet-music vendor who wants to live in a world "where the songs come true." Co-star Bernadette Peters, 31, Steve's oft reported main squeeze offstage, provides the love interest. With Depression-era recordings backing them on the soundtrack, the dapper duo lip-sync their way through 15 songs and six lavish production numbers. As for the dancing, says Peters: "At least I got to use my own feet...
...biggest name in merger making at the moment is Morgan Stanley, which is representing Conoco. It will earn a record fee of nearly $15 million on the eventual agreement, no matter which company is successful. Morgan Stanley's merger team is led by Robert Greenhill, 45, a dapper dresser who wears wide suspenders dotted, appropriately enough, with large dollar signs...
...Bartlett Giamatti, 43, lovable but rumpled president of Yale, comparing himself with dapper Predecessor Kingman Brewster: "I don't have his beautiful suits, but I wouldn't look good in them...
...native Leipzig, has built it into one of the nation's leading suppliers of historical illustrations to book publishers, magazines, television and films. Some of the archive's vast repository has even showed up on T shirts and cereal boxes. Last week the founder-now a dapper, energetic 77-and Hans P. Kraus, a Manhattan rare-book dealer, announced that the Bettmann Archive was being sold to the Kraus-Thomson Organization Ltd., a small international publishing firm...
DIED. Russell Procope, 72, dapper, goateed jazz clarinetist and saxophonist who was a fixture in the Duke Ellington Orchestra; in New York City. After playing with Chick Webb, Fletcher Henderson and the John Kirby Sextet, Procope joined the Duke in 1945, bringing his low, mellow sound to such Ellington compositions as 4:30 Blues and Swamp...