Word: manhattan
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...many writers are called away from a cover story by the awards committee of the Overseas Press Club of America. That happened to Associate Editor Mayo Mohs, who had to leave his typewriter, put on a dinner jacket and get to Manhattan's Biltmore Hotel where he was presented with the Madeline Dale Ross Award for writing "which demonstrates a concern for humanity"-specifically his cover story "Saints Among Us" (TIME, Dec. 29). He was soon back in his office writing this week's cover story on the divided Roman Catholic Church in America. A committed Catholic from...
...Apart from that minor gaffe, the world premiere of That's Entertainment, Part 2, and an accompanying 77th birthday party for Dancer Fred Astaire came off without a missed step. The film, which like Part 1 is a patchwork of old MGM movie clips, made its debut at Manhattan's Ziegfeld Theater with the help of a chorus line of venerable hoofers (Donald O'Connor, 50, Cyd Charisse, 53, and Marge Champion, 52), one retired Tarzan (Johnny Weissmuller, 71) and a true MGM golden-ager, Cory Grant, 72. But the stars of the evening were the narrators...
...Kong endured some final tinkering on his hydraulic hands last week, workers began fitting his horsehair covering onto a wood-and-Styrofoam standin. Once the suit is transferred to the star, the unnaked ape will team up with Actors Jeff Bridges and Jessica Lange for the storied chase through Manhattan streets and a climb to the 110th floor of New York's World Trade Center. Because the cost of King Kong has escalated from $13 million to $22 million, De Laurentiis has already scheduled a sequel: King Kong in Africa. Who could afford to tell a $3 million leading...
...live or visit. Known as Roosevelt Island (for F.D.R.), the 2.5-mile-long sliver of granite in the East River-formerly Welfare Island -served as a malodorous dumping ground for the wicked, the incurable and the insane. Today the islet is a burgeoning new community, only 300 yds. from Manhattan but psychologically light-years distant. This week convenience and mystique came together with the opening of a $6 million aerial tramway -the first ever used for urban transit in the U.S.-that can waft 1,500 passengers an hour across the water...
Illustrious Prisoners. Manhattan's Other Island-it might be called the Little Apple-was planned as a green and spacious community that would combine insular serenity, small-town security and Manhattan-on-the-rock sophistication. Its appeal is mostly to young families who might otherwise head for the suburbs. Cars are banned from its winding Main Street (though electric minibuses run around the clock). Dogs are verboten. Old trees have been spared, eyesores torn down, and landmark buildings preserved-including the oldest wooden farmhouse in New York County, an octagonal tower that drew Charles Dickens' admiration, a lighthouse...