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A Matter of Heart. Starting his campaign for the September primary, Screvane moved into Manhattan's heavily Jewish garment district, accompanied by Humorist Harry Hershfield. O.K., cried Hershfield, so maybe Screvane is of Italian-Irish descent and married to Limerick-born Bridie McKessy-but "he has a Jewish heart...
Lady Allen got the idea on a 1945 visit to Copenhagen, where a Danish landscape architect had created an immensely popular playground by stocking a lot with building materials. It looked like a junkyard. Back home, she organized committees to take over old bomb sites and equip them in the...
Because the fortunes of the free world's industrial nations are so intertwined, troubles tend to spread-like a run in a woman's stocking. Part of Wall Street's recent skittishness has been laid to concern about some weak spots that have appeared in the world...
And he is a remarkable vote getter. Since 1959, he has represented Manhattan's so-called "silk stocking" district; it includes Park Avenue, Fifth Avenue and Sutton Place, but it also embraces the seamier realms of Green wich Village and the East Side. In his first election he won...
Tugging at hems has been a feminine wile ever since skirts got off the floor, but more and more U.S. girls are now looking for a new parlor trick. Their skirts are soaring so high that no amount of hemming and hauling could help them hide those inches above the...