Word: manhattan
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Died. Dr. Willard Cole Rappleye, 84, dean of Columbia University's College of Physicians and Surgeons (1931-51), who helped the Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center to develop into one of the nation's great hospitals; in Manhattan. Rappleye got his M.D. magna cum laude from Harvard Medical School in 1918, worked in various hospitals in California and the Northeast, and taught hospital administration. Named dean of the medical faculty at Columbia at 39, he was a forward-looking educator who adapted the medical curriculum to keep pace with medical progress. In 1961, concerned with the disintegration of services...
...Singer-Actress Carol Charming last week and took to the dance floor. George, who has just written a new book titled Living It Up, or, They Still Love Me in Altoona, had come to New York on a stage tour with Channing, 53, and at a preshow party in Manhattan, the two showed their style with some bump and hustle. Well, sort of. "Carol was doing the hustle, but I was still doing the peabody. When I like something, I stick to it," noted Burns. "The only ones who can still dance the peabody are Jimmy Cagney and myself." Pause...
...Dino De Laurentiis' $22 million ape epic made his public debut at MGM's back lot and, considering that his innards are almost as complex as those of a Polaris missile, the king showed surprisingly few kinks. (The ape whose death was staged last June at Manhattan's World Trade Center for the film's final scene was a Styrofoam stand...
...named Gaetano Proclo (Jack Weston). On the run from a mobster brother-in-law, Gaetano lies low in what he considers a suitably obscure hideout. The place even has a reassuringly classy name-the Ritz. Gaetano is from Cleveland, so he can be forgiven his naiveté about the Manhattan demimonde. He suspects all is not well, however, when the Ritz turns out to be an elaborate bathhouse patronized exclusively by males. His darkest fears are confirmed when some of the patrons start winking at him, and one, Claude Perkins, launches repeated attacks from behind doorways and across corridors. Claude...
...Wall Street is frozen-yogurt city now," says a beaming Richard Egan, executive vice president of Colombo yogurt. Indeed, any fair lunchtime brings out crowds of bankers and stockbrokers strolling about and licking 500 and 750 curl-topped frozen-yogurt cones. In midtown Manhattan, long queues snake around corners to the tiny frozen-yogurt parlors that seem to have sprung up everywhere. Washington too has dozens of stores selling the stuff as well as a cruising truck dispensing only frozen yogurt. "It's ice cream without guilt. It's magic," says the hopeful proprietor of Yogurt Yogurt...