Word: yorke
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Rosalind Nester Ellis New York City...
...Christie's in London-and who began buying Japanese art while reporting from Tokyo in the 1960s-dreams of finding the Hiroshige print White Rain at Shōno under his Christmas tree. "Alas, my chances are slim," he admits. "It was auctioned at Christie's New York this year for $13,000." But no art, thank you, for Art Critic Robert Hughes, who wrote this week's Essay on collecting. Says Hughes, who has received his share of free samples from would-be-but-weren't Picassos: "I'll accept anything anybody chooses...
...addition to falling popularity, the Kennedy campaign itself has had its share of difficulties. In New York, for example, where Kennedy was thought to be the favorite to win the primary, Carter has moved quickly to pick up the endorsements of four of the five major New York City Democratic leaders and the mayors of the state's major cities. He also has the assistance of Governor Hugh Carey's organization in raising funds. Although Kennedy picked up half a million dollars at a Manhattan fund raiser, his speech was so lackluster that many of his supporters were...
...demonstrate Americans' support for the hostages, Carter asked people across the country to fly U.S. flags on Tuesday, which he designated National Unity Day. The biggest was a 60-ft. by 90-ft. flag that hung on the George Washington Bridge between New York and New Jersey. Americans also mailed the hostages hundreds of thousands of Christmas cards, including one that was 10 ft. by 64 ft. and signed by 22,000 people in Panama City...
DIED. Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen, 84, Roman Catholic prelate whose compelling sermons were heard by millions of Americans on evening radio in the 1930s and '40s and on national prime-time television in the '50s; of heart disease; in New York City...