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...Wheatland" (Buchanan); "The Squire of Hyde Park." Perhaps Mr. Reagan will come to be known as "The Squire of Rancho del Cielo," or "The Gipper," in reference to his second most memorable movie role, or in reference to the first, "The Rest of Me." New York Builder Donald Trump is called "The Donald" by Mrs. Trump, so we might call Mr. Reagan "The Ronald." It is too early to tell...
...fundamental idea behind Somewhere In Time is that true love can overcome any obstacle from social boundaries to the ultimate trump card, time itself. The film chronicles the supposedly magnificant obsession of one Richard Collier, a milk-fed Midwestern playwright marked for success by the gods for his overpowering goodness. Collier seems to come roaring out of the pages of Grit, but no matter, he is successful and stylish with a fancy glass office in Chicago, a foreign sports car and expensive clothes. And yet, he is not satisfied. He has broken up with his girlfriend, he needs...
...center of things, which accounts for their appeal. At the proposed 44-story Museum Tower, for example, condominium owners will be able to descend from a $250,000 one-bedroom home to an extension of the Museum of Modern Art within the same building. In the 62-story Trump Tower (named for Builder Donald, not the bridge maneuver) one apartment is planned that will cost $11 million. The applicants so far do not include any New Yorkers...
...possibility of parting with its building since last February, but the deal was finally accomplished only last month during a secret two-tier bidding operation. Finalists were allowed to put in sealed bids after agreeing to the initial suggested price of $325 million. Among them: Metropolitan Life, the Trump Organization, a Manhattan developer, and Olympia & COLBURN & York, a, Toronto leal estate firm. The hopeful buyers or their emissaries all hand-carried their offers to the offices of Landauer Associates, which just happened to be conveniently located in the Pan Am Building...
...building. The airline's name will continue to be on the face of the structure, and Pan Am will lease the 15% of the building that it presently occupies at about 30% below the current rate for prime New York office space. Says Losing Bidder Donald Trump: "The deal was extremely generous to Pan Am, but after ten or 15 years, it will probably turn out to be a good deal for Metropolitan." The insurance company is already happy with its proud tower. Says Metropolitan's Shinn: "In terms of prestige, location and quality of tenants, there...