Word: manhattan
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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When husky-voiced Singer Edie Adams whispered her final "pick one up and smoke it some time" back in 1973 and quit making TV ads for Muriel Cigars, the fire went out of the company's sales. Last week in Manhattan the stogie makers introduced a new Miss Muriel to light up the home screens. She is Susan Anton, 26, a former Miss California who beat out 400 other aspirants for a four-year contract with Consolidated Cigars Corp. "I don't smoke anything; I was told it would stunt my growth," confesses Anton, who stands...
...morning last week, the directors of CBS Inc. walked into the 35th-floor boardroom of the company's headquarters tower in mid-Manhattan for their monthly meeting. They could not fail to notice the one empty seat at the huge, 17-place mahogany table-the seat reserved for President Arthur R. Taylor-but no one said anything about it. They had all been warned of what was going to happen next. CBS Chairman William S. Paley, 75, wasted no time. He announced that Taylor, 41, a financial wizard whom Paley himself hand-picked in 1972 for the presidency...
...casting of Jessica Lange in the old Fay Wray role. Streisand almost signed on, then backed away. Cher would have been acceptable, but was visibly pregnant when production started. Then began a search for an unknown, which followed another mythical pattern: the fashion model flown out from Manhattan for a test; a first meeting with an unimpressed producer; the discovery by the director that she had one of those faces the camera loves; the producer's quick reversal of opinion; a hasty contract signing by a girl from Cloquet, Minn., who has now made good...
...experience triggers a melancholy reverie about a future when the American machine has rusted to a halt. The nation resembles some medieval terra incognita. Bandit barons rule its regions. Manhattan is an ancient ruin reclaimed by vegetation. The Chinese have become the world's most advanced civilization. They have even learned to shrink themselves to the size of egg rolls to conserve natural resources...
...department store dynasty brought her own nutmeg from Los Angeles for a rendition of an Eggs Chimay recipe published by Craig Claiborne (who also happened to be one of the six judges). The Detroit Tigers' Rusty Staub, who in his days as a Met studied cookery in several Manhattan restaurants, batted out a savory Oysters Rockefeller casserole. Celeste Holm concocted Shrimp Fiesta. Newscaster Carl Stokes reproduced his Mother's Best Home Fried Chicken. Designer Pauline Trigere, wearing an elegant Trigere gown, made Spaghetti Pauline. Actor Joel Grey and Wife Jo prepared Mexican Quesadillas. First prize (a basket...