Word: manhattans
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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ELSA RUSSELL Manhattan...
Antique stores now are full of the stuff. The U.S. Congress has ruled that an antique is something that dates back to at least 100 years. But with copiers and satellites, computers and jets compressing into minutes tasks that once took days, venerability has also accelerated. Manhattan Antique Dealer Sandy Burr holds an elegant wooden object, an art student's model of a woman's hand. "It has some age to it," he says. "Maybe 15 or 20 years...
Last week, at Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera House, the Royal celebrated the 20th anniversary of its first U.S. tour with the American premieres of two works that admirably displayed its body-English mode of dance. Jazz Calendar, the slighter piece, is a light-hearted series of variations on the old nursery rhyme that begins, "Monday's child is fair of face." Wednesday's child, who is "full of woe," is portrayed by Svetlana Beriosova as a studiously mournful, black-clad wraith, pursued by a clutching quartet of mottled, mock-serious snakes. Friday's children love...
Divorced. Martin E. Revson, 58, president of Revson Chemical Co. and younger brother of Cosmetics Magnate Charles Revson; by Julie Phelps Revson, 54; after 31 years of marriage (5½ of stormy separation) and four children; in Manhattan. On the day of the divorce, Revson married Eleanor Carmel, an attractive New York divorcee...
Died. Eugene W. Kettering, 60, son of the auto industry's late Charles F. Kettering, who followed his father's footsteps, both as a General Motors executive and open-handed philanthropist; of heart failure after emergency surgery; in Manhattan. Kettering spent 23 years at G.M., contributed significantly to the development of the modern diesel locomotive. He retired in 1959, devoted himself to Manhattan's Sloan-Kettering Institute for Cancer Research (cofounded by his father) and launched the Charles F. Kettering Memorial Hospital in Dayton, Ohio...