Word: manhattans
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Outside the studio on 58th Street in Manhattan hovers a claque of middle-aged women, shuffling their sensible shoes and swearing that the guy is the greatest thing since Clairol. Next to them is a gaggle of teen-age groupies eating their hearts out because their hero is married, of all things. But, as one matron said to a groupie, "It's all right, dear -he's ours only for an hour...
...Queen of the Norfolk Azalea Festival. Pat's taste is seen in the private sitting room and long hall. She has kept the Early American masterworks acquired by Jacqueline Kennedy and earlier tenants, but she particularly likes Impressionists and turn-of-the-century Americans. Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum has lent the White House Mary Cassatt's Portrait of a Young Girl, Ernest Lawson's Harlem River, one Sargent and two Monets...
Died. Edgar R. Baker Jr., 48, vice president and director of corporate development for Time Inc. and the man largely responsible for the success of TIME-LIFE INTERNATIONAL, which directed the company's operations in nearly 100 lands; of acute infectious hepatitis; in Manhattan. Trained in economics, Baker oversaw the development of T.L.I, in its formative years, sent TIME into virtually every non-Communist country, and organized a fortnightly international edition of LIFE for Spanish-speaking people. More recently, as director of corporate development, he helped lead Time Inc. into a variety of new ventures, among them Boston...
Died. Baron George Wrangell, 65, Russian aristocrat and onetime New York Journal-American society columnist, who made advertising history in 1951 when he donned an eyepatch (though he had 20/20 vision) and posed as the original "man in the Hathaway shirt"; of a heart attack; in Manhattan...
Considering the sad record of the past, the idea of a good German ballet troupe might seem as implausible as a Nepalese surfing club. Times have definitely changed. Not long after the curtain lifted at the American debut of the Stuttgart Ballet last week, the audience at Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera House was cheering in disbelief at the light-as-air elegance of a pack of young gazelles from the edge of the Black Forest...