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...others. The oldest continuously published daily in the U.S., the Post (circ. 500,000) has been the only afternoon paper in the nation's largest city since 1967-but Dolly Schiff had failed to make the most of it, editorially or financially. Last week Murdoch plucked the unripened plum. He waltzed Dolly into an agreement in principle to sell him the Post for a sum neither would disclose but which industry insiders estimated to be about $30 million...
LeRoy is best known for the improbably named Maxwell's Plum, an art nouveau extravaganza on Manhattan's East Side that has been S.R.O. since its opening in April 1965. Characteristically, he calls it "the longest-running show in town"-it caters to as many as 1,500 people a day. Plum is at once a singles nirvana and an excellent restaurant, though it is so constructed that the noise from the bar constantly blasts into the dining area-making it a good place to take guests to whom one has nothing to say. Last month Warner extended...
Although it did cause substantially higher tides threatening northern coast towns, and causing evacuations from Provincetown to Plum Island, Belle's punch seemed to be losing instead of gaining steam...
...weeks in advance, but visitors should go anyhow and sit in the Hors d'Oeuvrerie, where they can have sushi, steak tartare and other nibbles. Other restaurants combining fine food and wonderful decor: Café des Artistes (67th St. just off Central Park West) and Maxwell's Plum (64th St. and First Ave.), somewhat fantastically decorated with stained glass and Tiffany lamps, among other things...
...Wilson is a don manque. He and his wife have always dreamed of retiring to one of the more luxurious and pretigious college masterships at Oxford or Cambridge. Wilson's chances of receiving such a plum would be immeasurably greater if he resigns and lets his friends into power, rather than if he is forced to seek the groves of academe after a defeat in the general elections has let the Tories into power...