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DIED. Wilhelmina Behmenburg Cooper, 40, Dutch-born daughter of a Chicago butcher, who parlayed a career as one of the nation's most photographed beauties into a second triumph as head of one of the top New York model agencies; of cancer; in Greenwich, Conn. During her cover-girl days, Wilhelmina boasted that she was "one of the few high-fashion models built like a woman." So she was. With her 5 ft. 11 in., 38-24-36 frame, doe eyes, delicate cheekbones and mane of high-piled dark hair, she epitomized the classical, aristocratic look that she helped...
...name of social causes. He fasted for 40 days to call attention to the plight of the elderly in Hartford, Conn., he walked from Hartford to Washington to debate a fuel bill for the poor before Congress, he sloshed along the shores of Rhode Island all the way to Greenwich to protest the private ownership of beaches. Coll even ran for President in 1972, sharing a televised platform with George McGovern, Edmund Muskie and others. He drew attention to himself by waving a rubber rat in front of the t.v. camera to symbolize what he considered the central issue facing...
...Charles A. Dana Foundation of Greenwich, Conn., awarded the grant to aid construction of a four-story addition to the Harvard-Thorndike Research Laboratory, the oldest clinical research laboratory in the country...
Pacino trundles Serpico-style to Greenwich Village and sets up shop. He spends days with his nextdoor neighbor, Ted (Don Scardino), a gay playwright ("you know, boy meets boy, boy loses boy, boy gets analyst") who is scared to death of cruising, preferring to frequent more traditional gay cafes that Friedkin never shows. Nights, Pacino cruises, donning his leather outfit like a pudgy boy pulling on his first Halloween costume. Later, of course, the leather will no longer be a costume and Pacino will stop fumbling with the cruising paraphernalia. He will fit into the crowd in that hole across...
...Waverly owes its existence, in a sense, to two highly unlikely and unwitting patrons: Arthur Godfrey and an unmusical Greenwich Village landlord. It was Godfrey's ukulele playing that first prompted Jaffee, a furrier's son, to begin strumming the guitar as a boy in Brooklyn. Later, while studying musicology at N.Y.U., he met Kay, a pianist whose landlord had forbidden her to practice in her apartment. She took up the recorder as a consolation, and Michael experimented with accompanying her on the lute. Inspired by Noah Greenberg's pioneering New York Pro Musica, they "roped...