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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...shuns the parties his paper enthusiastically covers and spends evenings at home with his wife Jill and their four children. In his spare time, he has written a recently published novel, The Moonflower Couple, which dwells a lot on clothes while disdaining the fashionable people who wear them. His main ambition is to reach more readers. He takes satisfaction in the fact that twelve large U.S. dailies syndicate material from Women's Wear. Once all his publications are in the black, he hopes to start a general news daily for women, who, he says, "exercise far more control over...
...Carry the Ball." Because of the variety of ITT's main-line operations, Hal Geneen rejects anything remotely smacking of a "one-industry mentality...
...process, ITT's lobbyists and public relations men have been charged with an excess of zeal. Several reporters accused the company of trying to manipulate the news-and this was especially damaging since a main Justice Department complaint is that ITT's worldwide business interests might encourage the company to influence ABC's public-affairs programming. Justice's other key objections are that the merger would result in a cash drain away from already-strapped ABC (both companies insist that, on the contrary, ITT would be supplying the network with fresh capital) and that it would...
...since the '30s have American writers been so interested in the novelistic possibilities of poverty and despair. This and the following two books, A Glance Away and The W.A.S.P., all deal in their own way with life in the slums. A Hall of Mirrors' three main characters slide along the rim of vagrancy in New Orleans. Rheinhardt is an alcoholic disk jockey who relies on soup kitchens for survival; his adoring girl friend has a look that makes cops mistake her for a prostitute; Rainey is a physically repellent welfare worker who gets chased off the streets...
...Manhattan Bridge. New York Life eventually decided to give her to New York University. But it was the middle of the Depression-and the cost of a proper tower was prohibitive. At last the director of the Philadelphia Museum of Art offered her a place of honor in his main hall. And there she has remained ever since...