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...advertising heartthrob of the flapper era. The image of an elegant Manhattan clubman was created in 1905, when the company had its headquarters in Troy, N.Y., by Illustrator J.C. Leyendecker. The Arrow man was a cult icon in the 1920s and was featured in a 1923 Broadway musical, Helen of Troy, New York. Arrow retired the figure in 1931. Now, an '80s version of the man-about-town, painted by Leroy Neiman, is the star in the latest Arrow ad campaign. Says Vice President of Advertising Larry Weisberg: "The Arrow man gives us vitality...
Townsend faces even harder going. Although she is favored to win the primary, she must then upset Incumbent Representative Helen Delich Bentley, 62, a tough-talking conservative who dismisses Townsend's candidacy the way a dowager would dismiss a flapper. "I am running on my own name," says Bentley, "and on what I have done...
Professor of English and American Literature and Language Helen H. Vendler reminisced about when she was a child and her family did not have a television or records. But she would go to the ballet and the opera, about which she would form judgements...
...since the current state of emergency was declared on June 12. Some critics claimed that the real number of detainees was closer to 12,000, but the official figure was high enough to prompt an outcry from the small parliamentary opposition. The list, declared the Progressive Federal Party's Helen Suzman, was a "terrifying indictment of the government's inability to maintain law-and-order...
...enough it was time for the performance, and Marge's parlor filled to overflowing. Everyone was there, it seemed, but Choteau's best-known citizen, A.B. Guthrie Jr., author of The Big Sky, among other celebrated works. He is 85, and the last time he came, explained his daughter, Helen Guthrie Miller, "he fell asleep in the kitchen. The next morning he woke up screaming, 'Who's making all that goddam racket!' " Helen Guthrie Miller possesses a tart tongue herself, it turns out. When a woman companion at the recital boasted that because of aerobics, she has the pulse...