Word: manhattan
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...matters of finance. Says John Hammond: "In all my years in this business, he is the only person I've met who cares absolutely nothing about money." Springsteen lives sometimes with his girl friend Karen Darvin, 20, a freckled, leggy model from Texas, in a small apartment on Manhattan's East Side. More frequently he is down on the Jersey shore, where he has just moved into more comfortable-but not lavish-quarters, and bought his first decent hi-fi rig. He remains adamantly indifferent to clothing and personal adornment, although he wears a small gold cross around...
...Cynthia E. Harrison, a New Jersey woman, was turned down by Chase Manhattan Bank for a BankAmericard although she maintained a considerable balance in a savings account. Just two weeks later she got a form letter from the bank addressed to a sexually unidentifiable "C.E." Harrison, who was greeted as "Dear Preferred Customer" and offered a card...
...First Women's Bank, which opened in the Manhattan premises once occupied by the swank restaurant Le Pavilion, is a more ambitious undertaking. It has raised an initial capitalization of $3 million from some 7,000 stockholders across the country, mostly women: some were so enthusiastic that they sent in long typewritten lists of potential customers. The bank is headed by President Madeline McWhinney, 53, a banker's daughter from Denver who was once an assistant vice president of the New York Federal Reserve Bank. A dozen or so other women's banks are being organized around...
...women's needs. For example, under the motto "Women Mean Business," the State National Bank of Maryland has opened a special women's branch in Bethesda, including a small nursery where mothers can leave their children while chatting with loan officers, and E.F. Hutton, a big Manhattan brokerage house, is conducting special seminars for women investors. All together, women seem to be making major strides in winning financial equality with men-but they still have a long...
Died. Kay Daly Leslie, 55, harddriving, creative adwoman behind most of Revlon, Inc.'s campaigns for 25 years, who helped build the huge U.S. cosmetics industry; of cancer of the pancreas; in Manhattan. Reared in Wisconsin, Daly crashed male-dominated Madison Avenue in the early 1950s when as an agency copywriter she drew up Revlon's famous "Fire and Ice" campaign. It brought sex appeal to the selling of lipstick and nail polish and made Daly indispensable to Revlon. Later she became vice president and creative director of the company, where (at $100,000 plus...