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...92nd Street Y was dubbed “The Harvard of Nursery Schools” by Victoria Goldman, author of the Manhattan Directory of Private Nursery Schools. “The admissions are just as difficult,” says the mother of super-preschoolers herself, and “the facilities are probably better than Harvard?...
After braving entrance exams and interviews, only a select number of New York toddlers proved themselves worthy of acceptance to the elite institutions. At the cost of an economy-sized car, families can provide their erudite youngsters with a year of the finest quality preschool education. Many Manhattan parents see this instruction as a fast track to the Ivy League for their brilliant young minds...
...Switzerland and sheep-gland injections in Rumania, or have turned to holistic healers, megavitamin therapists, even voodoo doctors and spiritualists. Doctors caution AIDS patients about quackery but understand why their advice is often ignored. Says Dr. Michael Lange, an infectious-disease specialist at St. Lukes-Roosevelt Hospital in Manhattan: "If I were told that I was going to die from AIDS in two years, I would seek help wherever I could find...
...left the Navy after World War II. Henry Willson, the agent who turned Marilyn Louis into Rhonda Fleming and Arthur Gelien into Tab Hunter, thought it was appropriate that Roy Fitzgerald should become Rock Hudson, as solid as Gibraltar and as steady as the river that flows past Manhattan's towers. A series of B movies followed, and through hard work Hudson learned the craft if not the art of acting. He gave a fine performance in Giant (1956), for which he was nominated for an Academy Award, and showed a gift for comedy in a series of romances (like...
...field, the show-business community has begun to help its own. Until a year ago many people in the arts, gay as well as straight, seemed to ignore what was happening around them. But when TV Producer Victoria Hamburg helped organize an AIDS Medical Foundation benefit in Manhattan, she quickly got help from Papp and the Shubert Organization, which lent a theater; Mike Nichols, who offered to direct; Saturday Night Live's Lorne Michaels, who volunteered to produce; and Phil Donahue, who came on as emcee. Performers filled the stage: Joan Rivers, Gregory Hines, Penny Marshall, Steve Martin, Randy Newman...