Word: manhattan
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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DIED. Barbara Gushing Paley, 63, graceful socialite and one of the world's best-dressed women; of cancer; in Manhattan. "Babe" Paley was introduced early to high society as one of three beautiful daughters of Boston Neurosurgeon Harvey Gushing. She first hit the best-dressed lists "on nothing a year" as a fashion editor for Vogue magazine, choosing simple but striking clothes that marked her quiet sense of personal style. In 1947 she married William S. Paley, chairman of the board of the Columbia Broadcasting System, and came to embody a standard of elegance by which social functions...
...wheezing touch-football stalwarts assembled in Manhattan's Central Park were not exactly current championship contenders. Present were members of the Baltimore Colts and the New York Giants who played in the N.F.L.'s electrifying, first-ever overtime final in 1958 (the Colts won, 23-17). On hand were such Baltimore ex-greats as Johnny Unitas, 45, Raymond Berry, 45, and Gino Marchetti, 51. On the Giants side were Charley Conerly, 56, Frank Gifford, 47, and Kyle Rote, 50. Primed on beer and banter, the Baltimoreans puffed and passed to a 28-14 victory, overcoming such verbal assaults...
...Dracula is the definitive male chauvinist pig. He wants to possess," says George Hamilton, who plays the sanguineous count in the movie Love at First Bite. In this comic version of Bram Stoker's 1897 play, Dracula turns up in Manhattan, where he gets mugged on the street, assaulted by an admiring female on the subway and caught in a brownout. Enough, one might say, to make a count go batty...
...Washington, Miller is widely regarded as one of the best appointments that Carter has made. Private bankers commonly echo Milton W. Hudson, vice president of Manhattan's Morgan Guaranty Trust Co., who says Miller has put on "a virtuoso performance." Foreign leaders agree. Typically, West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt, who has long railed at Washington for failing to appreciate the dangers of the dollar's slide, feels that he has at last found a firm ally in Miller...
Every show has two settings, the one onstage and one in the society that exists behind it. Pins and Needles, at Manhattan's Roundabout Theater, is almost 41 years old; the first line of its first number is "Sing me a song of social significance." But the difference between what was socially significant in 1937 and in 1978 is so ironically perceptible as to cripple some of the numbers while endowing others with brand-new satirical bite...