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...Born. To Roberta Peters, 29, Manhattan-born petite coloratura of the Metropolitan Opera, and Bertram Fields, 38, hotel owner: a second son; in Manhattan. Name: Bruce Erric. Weight...
Full-Term Presidents. Ecuador had nowhere to go but up. It did. In 1948 Manhattan-born Galo Plaza, onetime football player for U.C.L.A., won election at the head of an independent ticket. Plaza, now 53 and main speaker at the recent Puerto Rican conference of U.S. Governors, gave Ecuador its first census, developed the world's largest banana industry to relieve Ecuador's dependence on witches'-broom-diseased cacao, offered Ecuador "chemically pure" democracy, free of press censorship and police statism. He served out all his four years, the first president to do so in 28 years...
Time was when a fictional hero sold his soul to the Devil; nowadays the Devil often seems to sell his to the hero. Manhattan-born Sigrid de Lima, 37, has attempted a novel in the older fashion, but before Praise a Fine Day ends, her nameless painter-hero appears more devilish than the odd bargain he makes and breaks...
...Simpson was chosen for his new post by fellow dons and canons, approved by Queen Elizabeth and Prime Minister Macmillan. He is not the first American to head a top English college; Manhattan-born Dr. Arthur L. Goodhart became master of Oxford's University College...
...inspiration for Kookie, Kookie comes from the character of the same name created by Manhattan-born Actor Byrnes on the TV series 77 Sunset Strip. In the show, Byrnes plays a parking-lot attendant who continually combs his hair as an antidote to thought. Warner Bros, noticed how teen-age televiewers dug Kookie, so it signed Byrnes to cut a disk and set a comb manufacturer to turning out "Kookie Kombs" by the thousands. When a Los Angeles disk jockey casually asked his listeners "Should Kookie cut his hair?" he promptly got 5,000 replies (100-to-1 against cutting...