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...unsuccessful sculptor, faced constantly by his large, reproachful objects. Comment s 'en d�barrasser!" His recognition is, Steinberg admits, "one of the biggest satisfactions of my life." His way of living is set, and is likely comfortably to remain so. Steinberg divides his time between a book-lined duplex in Manhattan's Upper East Side, sprinkled with his own objects and hung with a collection of drawings by American artist friends (de Kooning, Arshile Gorky), and a modest studio on Long Island. In the country, his wooden constructions: tables scattered with whittled books, made-up pens, artificial pencils. A disciplined...
...night to find three people peering in one window, two at another and two more at the door trying to get in. Uninvited guests do not, however, bother Manhattan Businessman Henry Hansenberg and his wife, Interior Decorator Mara Gardner. They have erected a dome studio on their penthouse duplex overlooking Central Park...
After the Star was born in 1974, Murdoch sold his 120-acre farm outside London and moved his family to Manhattan. There he is shuttled by chauffeured Cadillac from his Star office to Dolly Schiff's old suite at the Post to his twelve-room Fifth Avenue duplex, which is crowded with English antiques and modern Australian art. At a restored colonial farmhouse upstate, Rupert keeps trim by riding, skiing, swimming (40 laps in his pool) and thrashing around on a tennis court. He once challenged a group of his editors to play him, without their tennis shoes. "We have...
Felker's personal grandeur may match his managerial overreach. Since last spring he has asked for: 1) a 25% increase in his 1975 salary of $120,461. 2) the wherewithal to buy a house in Long Island's ducal Hamptons, and 3) company purchase of his super-duplex. His directors, in New York parlance, cut him off at the bottom line...
Three years ago Murdoch moved his headquarters to Manhattan, took a Fifth Avenue duplex, and enrolled his three children in local private schools. Clay Felker brought Schiff and Murdoch back together again at his home and, over lunch last September, Murdoch made her an offer. "I won't say how much," he says, "but we didn't get around to it until after coffee...