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Once a New York University "basketball major," as he claims Kahn still scuba-dives and plays softball occasionally in Manhattan's Central Park. Last summer he filled in at shortstop for TIME'S big game against a SPORTS ILLUSTRATED team. (TIME won, 15-4, and Kahn went...
Many corners later, Stanford Graduate Warner LeRoy, now 41, commands a fantasy world worthy of both H. Warner and M. LeRoy. He is the inventor and presiding panjandrum of two Manhattan eating places that establish him as a restaurateur-impresario sans pareil. Almost with his left hand, he also created Great Adventure, a thriving 1,500-acre, $100 million amusement-safari park in New Jersey. Clearly, Warner LeRoy is a triumph of Ozmosis...
LeRoy is best known for the improbably named Maxwell's Plum, an art nouveau extravaganza on Manhattan's East Side that has been S.R.O. since its opening in April 1965. Characteristically, he calls it "the longest-running show in town"-it caters to as many as 1,500 people a day. Plum is at once a singles nirvana and an excellent restaurant, though it is so constructed that the noise from the bar constantly blasts into the dining area-making it a good place to take guests to whom one has nothing to say. Last month Warner extended...
Last week, at a meeting of TIME'S Board of Economists in Manhattan, the experts divided sharply along political lines. The Democrats, led by Walter Heller and Arthur Okun, feel that the economy is behaving like an engine that could use more steam. The Republicans -Beryl Sprinkel and Murray Weiden-baum-believe that considering how much progress has already been made, the engine is working just fine...
Died. Kermit Bloomgarden, 71, producer of such Broadway hits as The Music Man, The Diary of Anne Frank and Look Homeward, Angel; while suffering from a brain tumor; in Manhattan. Born in Brooklyn and trained as a C.P.A., Bloomgarden became a business manager for a producer, then started presenting plays on his own. His first success, in 1945, was Deep Are the Roots, a drama about racial conflict. The next year he presented Lillian Hellman's Another Part of the Forest and, in 1949, Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman, which won a Pulitzer Prize. He made...