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...company's title before he was 30. Later, as a specialist in syndicate purchasing, Helmsley joined with Lawrence Wien, a Manhattan lawyer and investor, and began putting together his realty domain. The Empire State Building, which they bought in 1961 for $65 million, is the crown jewel, but their widespread holdings include shopping centers in Fort Wayne, Ind., and Decatur, Ill., apartment projects in Indianapolis and St. Louis, and Chicago's Insurance Exchange...
...other hand. Deadfall suggests that the cat-burglar genre may have only 998 lives. The star of the film is Michael Caine (Alfie, The Ipcress File), who has made a profitable career out of playing ingratiating, low-keyed bounders. This time, he plays an ingratiating, low-keyed jewel thief who creeps up on baubles and boudoirs with equal ingenuity. It is the kind of role that Caine can do in his sleep. The difficulty is that by now much of the audience may be tempted to doze along with...
...Charlie's Kitchen--that jewel in Brattle Square--a voice from the far end of the bar asked if any of the others had heard Nixon's choice. Silence...
...Precious Jewel. The Sabbath, on which manual labor is forbidden, presents another challenge for the kosher housewife. Friday is usually a day of frenzied activity-cleaning, shopping, preparing meals in advance for the tranquility and family intimacy of Saturday. There are some personal satisfactions. At sundown, after the wife lights the candles preceding the traditional Sabbath-eve dinner (typical menu: gefilte fish, matzoh-ball soup, chicken or beef, potato kugel), the husband often chants an ancient song of praise for his wife. Drawn from Proverbs 31, it begins: "A good wife who can find? She is far more precious than...
...HIGH SATIRE. Relatively high, anyhow. Benson & Hedges gets a lot of laughs as it demonstrates the disadvantages of smoking its longer cigarette: a jewel thief hides behind the drapes, but his B & H sticks through and gives him away; a girl writes in to thank B & H for the extra length, since it comes in handy on her job she sticks it in her mouth while a marksman flicks it with his bullwhip...