Word: manhattan
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Manhattan Adman Paul Hartnett went a step further. "I consider it my duty as a good citizen not to vote," he declared. "If 60% of the country did not vote, it might shake up the political process, and that would be fine because it needs shaking up." His reasoning: "If the people who voted for Nixon because they didn't like McGovern had not voted at all, Nixon would have won by a much smaller margin and might have behaved differently as President...
David Greenwald, 64, a fund raiser for philanthropic institutions in Manhattan, said withholding his vote was the most effective way for him to pass judgment on the candidates. "I'm expressing an opinion," he added. "I'm stating that both...
When the First Women's Bank opened a year ago on Manhattan's 57th Street, it was heralded as the answer to a feminist prayer. Founded by a small group of activists, among them Author Betty Friedan and Dress Designer Pauline Trigère, the new bank was supposed to be run as well as owned primarily by women and to give "special attention to the needs" of female depositors and borrowers who felt unwelcome at big, established banks. If such a venture'can be a commercial success, the first year has hardly proved the point...
...small size (capital: less than $4 million). But the bank has also been beset by management problems that officers are reluctant to discuss publicly. Employees grumble that the troubles start with frequent policy disputes that divide the 12-member board of directors, which is headed by a Manhattan lawyer, Evelyn Lehman, and includes four men. Some directors got into the venture for idealistic reasons but soon discovered that the job of guiding a new commercial enterprise can be unexpectedly demanding. One of First Women's women, Betty Friedan, left the bank in March, citing as a reason her writing...
Died. Mrs. George Herman ("Babe") Ruth, 76, widow of the Sultan of Swat, baseball's greatest player; of cancer; in Manhattan. A Broadway dancer from Georgia, Claire Hodgson was unimpressed when she first met Ruth in 1923. "His face and his stomach were fat, his legs like a chorus girl's," she wrote in her 1959 memoir The Babe and I. As his second wife, she helped curb the Bambino's bacchanalian excesses during their 19-year marriage. After his death, she became the custodian of his legend. Though the Babe's home-run records...