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Died. Philip J. Levin, 62, multimillionaire real estate developer and president of the Madison Square Garden Corp.: of a heart attack; in Manhattan. The balding wheeler-dealer amassed much of his fortune of more than $100 million by building scores of shopping centers from Maine to Miami. He also became MGM's largest single stockholder, and in 1966 and 1967 staged unsuccessful proxy fights against the management. Levin then sold his MGM stock and bought into the conglomerate, Gulf & Western Industries. He headed Madison Square Garden since February...
Surprisingly for a film biography of a man who is still alive (the real Knievel performed in Madison Square Garden a month ago), the hero is portrayed as an egomaniac, a compulsive worrier and a shameless searcher after publicity. Marvin Chomsky's direction is pedestrian, but the script (by Alan Caillou, John Milius and Pat Williams) has some nice moments of quirky comedy, as when a fissure opens in the earth and a rather large automobile disappears without a trace. The film is good-naturedly skeptical and occasionally satiric about Knievel's exploits-in marked and welcome relief...
Born in Cracow, Poland, "Madame" founded her empire in Australia in the early 1900s by successfully marketing a version of her mother's home-brewed recipe for face cream. When O'Higgins first saw her in 1950-plowing down Madison Avenue, a crocodile bag in one hand and a brown-paper lunch bag in the other-she was the undisputed queen of the beauty industry; he was travel editor of Fleur Cowles' peekaboo fashion magazine, Flair. Sometime later, after an introduction by mutual friends, he was invited to become her personal secretary. His salary was modest...
Three Pence. James Madison, who drafted the First Amendment, had no doubt about his intent. It was to strike down any support out of the public purse to any religious institution. Referring to the three penny tax on-tea that precipitated the American Revolution, he argued: "Who does not see that the same authority, which can force a citizen to contribute three pence only of his property for the support of any one establishment, may force him to conform to any other establishment in all cases whatsoever...
...SoHo was beginning to stimulate a political cleavage in the art world. Artists, fed up with seeing their work presented, if at all, as a luxury item at 50% commission on Madison Avenue, were talking of short-circuiting the dealer system entirely and selling work out of their own lofts. Meanwhile, the prodigious overhead of running an uptown exhibition space made it economically difficult for dealers to show new or unfamiliar art in the fading years of the '60s boom. Opening a branch in SoHo became a necessary gamble. Paula Cooper, the first gallery owner...