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...Crostics fan, she has a bachelor's degree (cum laude) from Queens College. New York, an M.A. and LL.B. from Columbia, has served as a legal assistant to Chief Justice Arthur Vanderbilt of the New Jersey Supreme Court. With Husband Victor, Vivienne lives in a 3½-room Greenwich Village apartment only four blocks from Van Doren...
Back in Manhattan after World War II service overseas in the Psychological Warfare Division (SHAEF), Ferren soon became a leading practitioner and exponent of the new abstract expressionist movement, was a founding member of the artists' informal Greenwich Village headquarters, "The Club," served on the selection committee for the 1949 "Ninth Street Show," which pulled together Manhattan's abstract artists in one big show for the first time...
Mark's family shuttled between a sprawling 18th century farmhouse on 150 acres in Cornwall, Conn, and a house on Greenwich Village's Bleecker Street, where an evening's conversation struck sparks from a roomful of such guests as Carl, Mortimer Adler, Clifton Fadiman, Critic Joseph Wood Krutch, Columnist Franklin P. Adams, Lawyer Morris L. Ernst, Novelist Sinclair Lewis. "We'd be talking along," recalls Fadiman, "and then we'd look up and there would be two little kids in pajamas, hanging over the banister, eavesdropping." Charles's mother would pack...
...Dictionary as Literature. Charlie and his family say he was "slow getting started," did not walk until he was 18 months or talk until he was two. His records at the City and Country School, a progressive school in Greenwich Village, seem strangely prophetic: at four, "one of the best block builders in the group; his dramatic play is very vivid"; at six, "outstanding for clear thinking and intelligent planning"; at eight, "a ready fund of first-hand knowledge." His mother taught him to read at five during a Connecticut winter away from school. He remembers his first book...
...lamented last week, "but I don't have the time or appetite to eat." He has lost 10 lbs. since the ordeal began. To carry him through the foodless day, he keeps cooking himself bigger breakfasts in his sunny, $10-a-month, three-room walkup apartment in Greenwich Village...