Word: manhattan
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Died. William Redfield, 49, veteran TV, stage and screen actor whose estimated 2,000 performances included playing Harding in the Academy Award-winning film One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest; of a respiratory ailment complicated by leukemia; in Manhattan. The son of a music arranger and a Ziegfeld Follies chorus girl, Redfield played ten roles on Broadway before he was 20. He later wrote about the theater -Letters From an Actor (1967)-and with Lee Strasberg and Elia Kazan helped found the Actors Studio...
...question of whom it should sell to played an important part in Abercrombie's genesis. David T. Abercrombie made camping goods in a small factory in Lower Manhattan and was content to sell to trappers, railroad surveyors, prospectors and others who worked out of doors. Then, in 1892, he met Ezra Fitch, a successful but bored lawyer. They became partners and built a store on Broadway where Fitch set out to sell Abercrombie's goods to the public in general and fat-cat sportsmen in particular. After many disagreements over just whom the store should be catering...
...Eisenhower and all-round author-out-doorsman Ernest Hemingway also shopped there. Its stock of firearms and tackle equipment was among the world's largest and finest, and its aloof sales staff was made up of technical experts in A. & F.'s wares. A. & F.'s Manhattan store on Madison Avenue was a showcase of such exotic items as $300 miniature antique cannons, $1,188 Yukon dog sleds, and portable stone furnaces for heating cabins on yachts. It even sold lightweight chain-mail suits to protect explorers against arrows from Indian bows in South America...
...casual stroller who would like to think of the world's greatest playwright as the bawd of Avon will find plenty of license at Joseph Papp's production of Measure for Measure in Manhattan's Central Park. "Hence shall...