Word: manhattan
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DIED. Philip Sporn, 81, former president of the American Electric Power Co., once the world's largest private producer of electric power; of a heart attack; in Manhattan. Austrian-born, "Mr. Public Utility" joined the forerunner of AEP in 1920, became its chief engineer in 1933 and president in 1947. By producing power at lower cost, the seven-state utility network encouraged the widespread use of electricity and helped industrialize the Ohio Valley...
Life begins at 54 for Liza Minnelli and Shirley MacLaine and Farrah Fawcett-Majors and Supermodel Cheryl Tiegs. Oh yes, and for Bianca Jagger and Tennis Star Vitas Gerulaitis and even Bella Abzug. Inside Manhattan's hottest disco, Studio 54, the elite meet to gyrate to the beat, watch the light show, gape and be gaped at. Since the club opened nine months ago, Photographer Adam Scull, son of Art Buff Robert Scull and his estranged wife, Ethel, has been there almost' nightly to snap the customers because, he says, "it's something that...
...York, there are aging Jewish immigrants whose ideas of social justice were formed by the Russian Revolution, and whose heated arguments Gornick remembers from her own Bronx childhood. The East Side of Manhattan was politically unique to an Italian who grew up there. "The right-wingers were the New Dealers," he wrote, "and the political conjugation went on from there: Social Democrats, Socialists, Communists, Trotskyists, Anarchists...
...spite of all that, Ray has moved to Manhattan, where she is studying acting with Lee Strasberg and readying a nightclub act. She plans to tell a joke about Richard Nixon's effort to replace Rose Mary Woods. He wanted, it seems, "someone who could erase 120 words per minute...
...Seaver tosses a pitch, and Terrible Ted trots calmly to first base. The scene at Williams' alma mater, Hoover High School in San Diego, will air in the spring on the syndicated TV show Greatest Sports Legends, to which Seaver is playing host this year. At lunch in Manhattan to pitch the show, Williams, 59, who in his heyday earned $125,000 a year, defended today's well-bankrolled athletes, like, say, the $500,000-plus-a-year Reggie Jackson. "I'm envious," sighed the Kid. "I wish I'd a bit more business sense when...