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Jack Javits' wife has long sought a suitable form of self-expression. She tried painting, ballet dancing, flying, acting (she had a bit part in a 1960 movie, Who Was That Lady?}, before turning to journalism. Last summer she began writing a column for Manhattan East, an uptown uppercrust weekly...
...these "French flats," patterned after Parisian apartments of the day, right down to the watchful concierge, caught on fast. Until the day it was torn down a few years ago, the building never had a vacancy. Moreover, it set the pattern. As the residential section of the city crept uptown, fashionable New Yorkers moved in evergrowing numbers into the massive and ornate variants of Stuyvesant's Folly that rose along Park and Fifth Avenues. They were solidly built, with highceilinged, spacious rooms...
...York's Jewish Daily Forward, the U.S.'s largest (circ. 70,000) foreign language (Yiddish) newspaper, a tireless fighter for the downtrodden, whose fund-raising efforts among New York's wealthy Jewish families won him the title of "the East Side's ambassador to the Uptown Jews"; of cancer; in Manhattan...
...normal state of affairs in this country for quite a while now. The glib and easy market researched laugh. 20 years ago the laughs came when the comic said Brooklyn. Today it comes when he says Madison Ave. The joke remains the same. It's just moved a little uptown...
Well, "shame! shame!" I cry. In the future my custom is reserved for the Uptown and Central Square. Cato