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...figure it, all the evidence indicates that one day people will look back at this period and call it a magicians' renaissance." Reynolds is putting his money where his math is. This fall he will open a theater-restaurant à la Magic Castle in New York's Greenwich Village...
Since 1955, the tabloid Voice (circ. 150,000) has earnestly chronicled the peculiarities of New York City life, its iconoclastic eye quick to spot problems of the underdog. Unremittingly quarrelsome, wordy and underedited, the Voice also captures the funky, ingrown perspective of Greenwich Village. Its reviewers, including such first-rate critics as Nat Hentoff and Andrew Sarris, dig up underground entertainment far from Broadway or first-run moviehouses. Columns by Militant Lesbian Jill Johnston flow endlessly, devoid of all punctuation, capitalization and-usually-sense...
...lives with his wife Edith, a fashion designer and the daughter of Novelist Kurt Vonnegut Jr., in Manhattan's Greenwich Village. He enjoys being recognized on the street. "TV creates celebrities," he says. "It is ego-satisfying work, I'll admit...
...later, Ed Durso was hit by a pitch and George Greenwich was called from the Husky bullpen to get the final out. He got Jim Thomas to pop up in the infield and it looked as though the inning was finally over. But third baseman Mark McHugh dropped the ball in front of the plate and two more runs scored...
...airplane crashed into it. To save face, y'know?" Thus he describes the Freehold, N.J., home where he was born in 1949. Home life was not easy, and when his folks went West prospecting for better jobs, Springsteen remained behind. At 16 he was commuting to Greenwich Village to play guitar in cafes. Self-taught, Springsteen also became proficient on the piano and harmonica-"If a guy can fix a radio, he can find his way around a TV, y'know?"-and soon he was forming bands of his own. He was "discovered" for recordings by John Hammond...