Word: halls
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...penthouse she was sharing with her new lover, John Tupper, 34, a divorced restaurateur. When she found no one there, Buddy Jacobson she said later, she assumed that Tupper was out jogging. But when she found his jogging shoes, she began to worry. She went down the hall to the apartment of Buddy Jacobson, whom she had abandoned to move in with Tupper several weeks ago. Jacobson refused to let her in, but she was able to see that his apartment was in disarray, with bloodstains on the carpet. Returning to Tupper's apartment, she telephoned the police...
...usual. Striking pressmen, supported by other unions, shut down the city's three major daily newspapers, the New York Times, the Daily News and the Post. But the native would have been wrong. Before they closed up, the papers had reported a happier story. Sitting in City Hall at a desk that George Washington used when New York City was the capital of the U.S., Jimmy Carter signed a bill that authorizes $1.65 billion in federal loan guarantees for the city. The event possessed immense practical meaning for the Big Apple, which for two years has been creeping back...
...anonymous city bureaucracy. If a neighborhood association makes a fuss about infrequent trash collections, a sanitation truck shows up fairly promptly. A certain new self-reliance is evident among New Yorkers, who on their own are reclaiming parks, planting community gardens, developing day care activities; if city hall is busy just keeping the entire government out of debtors' prison, residents conclude they must act for themselves...
...above the cute. ("The people ... need to adore me/ So Christian Dior me," sings Evita to her couturiers.) The show's structure is clumsy. In addition to the narration and flashbacks within flashbacks, Rice introduces an irrelevant character just to plug his best song (Another Suitcase in Another Hall). That sort of contrivance hasn't been seen in a musical since Carol Haney sang Hernando's Hideaway in The Pajama Game...
DIED. Jesse Haines, 85, Hall of Fame pitcher for the St. Louis Cardinals; in Dayton, Ohio. In 1920, after other major-league teams shunned him, Haines was signed up for the then considerable sum of $10,000 by Branch Rickey, manager of the Cardinals. Haines relied on his knuckle-ball to compile a 210-158 lifetime won-lost record with a 3.64 earned run average. A quiet player who tended a commercial garage offseason, he pitched until he was 44, earning the fond nickname "Pop" from his teammates, the "Gashouse Gang...