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...92nd Street Y was dubbed “The Harvard of Nursery Schools” by Victoria Goldman, author of the Manhattan Directory of Private Nursery Schools. “The admissions are just as difficult,” says the mother of super-preschoolers herself, and “the facilities are probably better than Harvard?...
DIED. Gardner ("Mike") Cowles Jr., 82, founder-publisher of Look magazine; of a heart attack; in Southampton, N. Y. His father had built a newspaper empire, and after young Mike and his late brother John took over the flagship Des Moines Register, they began to buy radio stations in the 1930s. In 1937 the Cowleses launched a new picture magazine two months after the debut of LIFE, and Look, too, quickly became a financial success. He followed up, however, with a string of magazine failures. In 1971, battered by advertising losses to TV, Look went under. With the family newspaper...
...immigrants changing the face of New York does not threaten me. If America is as good to these newcomers and benefits as much from their efforts as it did from those of my parents, who arrived in 1913, then all will be well. Rabbi Ronald Millstein Great Neck, N. Y...
...aggressive campaigner for Kerry/Edwards, Casey’s coattails are widely credited with helping to pull the party’s losing presidential ticket to victory in the Keystone State. Seeing Casey’s strength, Sen. Charles E. Schumer ’71, D-N.Y., who chairs the Democrats’ Senate campaign committee, persuaded the pro-lifer to run for the Senate next year against Sen. Rick Santorum, R-Penn.—a formidable, but extremely right-wing incumbent. And in doing so, Schumer muscled aside a fellow pro-choice politician, who also happened...
That’s right, fellow H-bomb droppers, we’ve got bona fide competition now—competition to which Yale pales in comparison. Hear the names of these modern-day behemoths of education and tremble: the 92nd Street Y, Brick Church School, Weekday School at Riverside Church...