Word: nyack
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DIED. James Daly, 59, character actor who is currently being seen as Dr. Paul Lochner in reruns of TV's Medical Center; following a heart attack; in Nyack, N.Y. Daly managed to sustain an active Broadway career (Saint Joan, Billy Budd, J.B.) while garnering more than 600 television credits, primarily in adventure shows (The F.B.I., Mission: Impossible...
...opening curtain). He studied the way Japanese wrap things; bamboo structures, for example, are held together by wrapping them in reeds or rattan. He also collected Japanese fans and Japanese prints of Perry's warships. In his cliffside home overlooking the Hudson River located near the town of Nyack, N.Y., Aronson's study is filled with hundreds of sketches for the show. Each one is intricately painted. Some, including half a dozen potential stage curtains, are silk-screened on cotton. Some are done on rice paper, but New York City's fire laws forbid their...
...established reputation. But it does reveal a good deal about Hopper's interests and development, his slow trial-and-error manner of working, his exacting standards for himself and his relationship with the world. The son of a frustrated scholar turned dry-goods merchant, Hopper was born in Nyack, N.Y., in 1882. He read prodigiously in his father's library: English, French and Russian novelists, philosophers from Montaigne to Emerson. He was a loner almost from the start, perhaps because by the age of twelve he had sprouted to an awkward 6 ft. (full-grown...
Died. Alvin Johnson, 96, a founder and longtime head (1923-45) of Manhattan's New School for Social Research; of a stroke; in Upper Nyack, N.Y. A Nebraska farm boy who mastered Latin and Greek, Johnson went on to teach economics at eight universities and join Walter Lippmann as one of the first editors of the New Republic. In 1919, along with such other intellectual rebels as Historian Charles Beard and Philosopher John Dewey, he established the New School. As director of the free-form institution, Johnson set up a "University in Exile" that offered haven to more than...
...WILLIAM DIEBOLD Upper Nyack...