Word: metropolitanism
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Died. Abby Rockefeller Mauze, 72, eldest child of John D. Rockefeller Jr. and sister of Vice President Nelson A. Rockefeller; of cancer; in Manhattan. Thrice married, she dedicated much of her life to philanthropy. Among her beneficiaries were the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center and a tree-lined vest-pocket park called Greenacres, which she opened to provide "some moments of serenity" on Manhattan's bustling East Side. ∙ Died. Gordon Browning, 86, three-term Governor of Tennessee and six-term Congressman (1923-35); in Huntingdon, Tenn. Democrat Browning won his first term as Governor...
...haired English soprano who excelled in French art songs and opera; in London. In 1908 Claude Debussy coached her for her title role in his Pelleas and Melisande, which she was still singing at the age of 60. Her clear, controlled voice was not considered robust enough for the Metropolitan Opera, but she sang in smaller houses in the U.S., and her recordings of turn-of-the-century French songs by Debussy, Berlioz, Ravel and Faure are still rare collectors' items...
...Westbury Music Fair, a theater near Islip, aimed at attracting other partners. They found six, among them the owner of a Long Island Midas Muffler franchise and an Islip doctor. The six put up $390,000, and Lemongello worked out a plan to hit the New York metropolitan-area market, as he puts it, "like a slow-release time bomb." He cut a two-record album, Love 76, then in January activated his bomb: a 13-week, $187,000 campaign jamming all six New York City TV channels with 70 to 100 commercials a week...
John F. Snedeker, head of the Metropolitan District Commission (MDC), said last week that the relief sewer extension will enable the Charles River to resume some of its original stature as a protective natural resource and also provide for additional recreational...
...York magazine that predicted "Bad News in Store for The New York Times." The magazine piece suggested that an almost inevitable slashing of the Time's $31 million editorial budget was in the cards, a cut "which would reduce the paper to a little more than another metropolitan daily living off wire copy for anything happening more than 25 miles from City Hall...