Word: yorke
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...affliction with cancer are true.'' So said Iran's Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini, with his customary generosity to a fallen foe. The reports were indeed correct. Last week Mohammed Reza Pahlavi, 60, flew from his lavish, well-guarded home in exile at Cuernavaca, Mexico, to New York City's LaGuardia Airport on a chartered jet that airline officials had first been told would only be carrying a ''valuable shipment'' from the Bank of Mexico. Weak and frail-looking, the Shah shuffled into a limousine and was then whisked away under tight security...
Indeed, the Ayatullah's Foreign Ministry announced it would send a doctor to New York to monitor the Shah's illness, and angry Iranian students picketed the hospital with signs demanding DEATH TO THE SHAH. Meanwhile, more than 2,000 people, including Henry Kissinger,' sent get-well telegrams to the ailing ex-monarch...
Johns, as customers of prostitutes are known, are finding the times a bit tough these days. Last week in New York City, a burg known for its peccadilloes, the municipally owned radio station, under orders from Mayor Edward Koch, started broadcasting the names of men convicted of patronizing prostitutes. In Minneapolis, a city noted for its civic probity, some leading citizens were unmasked as sometime Johns. The Minneapolis Star published an expose identifying 13 men who have frequented certain sauna baths and other places of prostitution. Six of them are key public figures who have played a role in shaping...
...Copland, Virgil Thomson and Roger Sessions; in Paris. Though a promising composer, she taught indefatigably for five decades and had great influence on such American-born artists as Classicist Roy Harris and Experimentalist Philip Glass. She was also the first woman to conduct London's Royal Philharmonic, New York's Philharmonic and the Philadelphia and Boston symphony orchestras...
DIED. Eleanor Robson Belmont, 100, toast of the turn-of-the-century Broadway stage who became a leading fine arts patron; in New York City. A third-generation actress, Eleanor Robson triumphed in Merely Mary Ann and so impressed George Bernard Shaw that he wrote Major Barbara with her in mind. After a 1910 farewell bow before weeping fans, Robson married August Belmont, banker, racing-stable owner, and a multimillionaire nearly twice her age. Thus began a new role as society grande dame and philanthropist. Closest to her heart was the Metropolitan Opera, which she rescued in the lean 1930s...