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Hefner's pad on Chicago's North State Parkway has become a considerable tourist attraction, with guided tours available to anyone who has a minimum of pull. It is also the monument to a major American business success story. Unlike other Chicago businesses, the enterprise is not founded on steel, grain or transportation, but on a magazine. One of the great publishing successes since World War II, Playboy was started in 1953 with a 70,000 press run, now has a 4,000,000 circulation...
...squeeze and the indiscriminate smile. Thursday for instance he took his campaign to the Crown Heights section of Brooklyn, a few blocks from the spot where Barnum and Bailey's pitched tent when they made a special stop in that borough years ago. FDR Jr. pulled over on Eastern Parkway in front of a brightly lit cafeteria. Facing the building he looked out at Crown Heights proper, an old neighborhood of Italians and orthodox Jews. Behind him was Bedford-Stuyvesant, the most salvageable of the city's Negro slums. Looking toward the slum he could see sheets of paper propelled...
Then his failing voice, which had that day seared nearly the entire borough, squeaked piteously and died. A young Negro took over. "Come on you people over on the other side of Eastern Parkway, come see Franklin Roosevelt. He's in the cafeteria, come...
Married. Robert Moses, 77, New York's onetime power, park and parkway czar, now chairman of the Triborough Bridge and Tunnel Authority; and Mary Grady, 50, an Authority secretary for 30 years; she for the first time, he for the second (one month after his first wife died); in Jersey City...
...expressed," says Cornell. They are self-inventories, cabinets into which he stuffs his own life. Now 62, he has always boxed himself into his own world. He has never been overseas, hardly ever wanders far from his white-shingled, blue-trimmed family house near the end of the Utopia Parkway in a quiet area of Queens in New York City. There he has lived since 1917, when, says he, "it was still Arcadia...