Word: teaneck
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...Side, he was a dedicated gardener at his New Jersey home, and he once tried growing grapes to produce his own wine. His report on Château Volcker grand cru: "It came out like shellac." He is from a middle-class family-his father was city manager of Teaneck, N.J.-and is known to be somewhat parsimonious. His cigars, complain his associates, do not carry a banker-like aroma. (One of his first acts, nonetheless, will probably be to remove the NO SMOKING signs Chairman Miller installed in the Fed boardroom.) Volcker's preferred entertainment is watching sports...
...unusual kid. I didn't look like anybody else," she recalls. "Everybody was wearing pageboys, and I had frizzy hair." She changed her name from Phoebe Laub to Phoebe Snow, a sign on boxcars near her home in Teaneck, N.J. She doted on Shirley Temple movies and Judy Garland records. Later she borrowed from early enthusiasms. "I copped that lick for my refrain in Poetry Man from The Continental in the old Fred Astaire-Ginger Rogers movie," she admits. Her parents-her mother was a Martha Graham dancer-encouraged her to study classical piano. With Billie Holiday, Big Bill...
...Wigglesworth Hall. Charles W. Holness '76 of Teaneck, N.J., sat reading Time magazine. He didn't turn his radio...
Died. Charlie Dale, 90, deadpan half of Smith and Dale, longest-running comedy act in show business; in Teaneck, N.J. Joe Smith, now 87, and Charlie Dale met in 1898, when their bicycles collided on Manhattan's Lower East Side. A bystander who watched the ensuing argument compared them to the vaudeville team of Weber and Fields, and the two teen-agers took the comment seriously enough to begin working together as amateurs. They became headliners even before the Palace Theater was built in 1913. Even through TV appearances in the '60s, their low-comedy routine was remarkably...