Word: manhattan
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...content to duel Hugh Hefner on the newsstands, Penthouse Publisher Bob Guccione seems determined to outdo the Playboy prince in the real estate department too. Guccione has paid more than $1 million in cash for the 40-room Manhattan mansion that once belonged to Financier Jeremiah Milbank, and he is preparing to spend another $1 million or so to have it "all redone in Italian Renaissance, very classical and simple." Besides a Roman-bath swimming pool and quarters for nine live-in servants, Guccione's digs will also feature accommodations for visiting Penthouse pets, but with some differences from...
...First Lady, 57, was having her first reunion with her former mentor in more than three decades. Back in the late 1930s, Mrs. Ford was Betty Bloomer from Grand Rapids, a tyro member of the Graham entourage. After watching a brief rehearsal at the Graham school in Manhattan, Betty gave Martha a $125 check for a ticket to a benefit performance this week on behalf of her company. "The dance, or her memory of it, has kept her beautiful," observed the instructor of her former pupil. Had the world lost a potential star when Betty abandoned her first career years...
Died. Arthur Kober, 74, Bronx-accented humorist and playwright; of cancer; in Manhattan. Kober's career ranged from Broadway, Having A Wonderful Time (1937), Wish You Were Here (1952), to Hollywood, where he adapted his first wife Lillian Hellman's play The Little Foxes for the screen in 1941. His best-known creation, Bella Gross, drawn from The Bronx immigrant neighborhoods where he grew up, appeared in innumerable cartoons and New Yorker stories and remains the model for an enduring comic genre: the put-upon Jewish girl who is forever hounded by her mother...
...ensconced in a Manhattan town house (Kenny is her second husband, her first marriage was a brief misalliance), Nicky is a happy lotus-eater. She and Kenny, who is pretty rich himself, are the hosts with the most publicity. They throw a last-minute dinner for any friend who drops in from "another planet," and "we let people wander all over the house." Nicky also gives tea parties (replete with cucumber sandwiches) in their "Kenny Gothic" drawing room, a jungle of sculpture, animal skins, Chinese tea chests and scattered bibelots...
...April and a far cry from the rates of last year. In the past three months, wholesale prices have climbed at an annual rate of 5.5%, compared with the peak rate of 35.3% in the three months ended last August. Businessmen's borrowing costs are also coming down. Manhattan's First National City Bank, which usually sets the pace for other major institutions, lowered its prime loan rate a quarter point, to 6¾%, v. 12% last July...