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...number of white people uptown that night (many of them never even left their cars) was closer to 2,000 than 800. And very few of them were angry about anything at all. Most, like Victim Fred Link, were just curious. Negroes who gathered were fewer than...
...Great Propagators. By the thousands people came-upper Madison Avenue ladies interestedly peering at The Kiss, a beatnik who had to see the show even if it meant lugging the baby uptown, suburban matrons intelligently relating Rodin to the Greeks. Until modern times, only a tiny proportion of humanity ever looked at art, and even they were confined to what was close at hand. Now museums more than ever search out the treasures of the world, hidden in private collections, ancient temples, obscure monasteries, half-forgotten castles. They gather the works of one man or one school from all over...
...sounds perfectly insufferable. David and Liz are newlyweds and weanling artists. In full flight from the soft clutch of uptown parental comfort, the two make their nest in an industrial loft in lower Manhattan. After a series of predictable experiences-first night, first fight, first child-they are drawn back to the kind of cozy middle-class coop they flew in the first place...
There was no reaction among Harvard students to the change. "Columbia?? Isn't that somewhere uptown?" one New Yorker asked...
Accept or Reject. Knowing hands pointed out that just after she handed in her resignation to the association at a meeting in midtown Manhattan's Daily News building, she scooted off to meet Powers at an uptown hotel. After nearly three hours, she emerged with Powers to announce that she would immediately begin calling some-but not all-of her 1,183 employees back to work under the old contracts. But it might not be that easy to get back in print on the cheap; the American Newspaper Guild advised its members to report for work, whether they were...