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Died. Lois Long, 73, fashion editor of The New Yorker for more than four decades; in Saratoga, N.Y. A minister's daughter, Long joined The New Yorker in 1925 as "Lipstick," its chatty nightclub columnist. Soon she began pointedly commenting about Fifth Avenue's ladies-wear trade in "On and Off the Avenue," a column that for years she simply signed...
John D. Rockefeller IV, 37. To his critics in West Virginia, Native New Yorker "Jay" Rockefeller is a suspect Democrat from a Republican family-and a carpetbagger to boot. Still, two years after arriving in Appalachia as a poverty worker, the nephew of Nelson Rockefeller and grandson of John D. Jr. easily won a seat in the state house of delegates, in 1968 was elected West Virginia's secretary of state. Handsome, rich, well educated (Exeter, Harvard, Yale) and well wed (his father-in-law is G.O.P. Senator Charles Percy), Rockefeller lost his bid for governorship...
Marian McPartland, the great English-born jazz pianist with a famous soft touch, will play at our own Sanders Theater July 11 at 8:30. There was a New Yorker profile on McPartland a couple of years back that made her sound dedicated and nice, and god-knows she probably is. For only two bucks it sounds like a good deal--definitely quality goods here. Pray that it isn't a hot night; Sanders can get pretty stuffy. Tickets at Holoke Center or the Loeb...
...walk around at 6. At 7 it's safe. But you can see the 6 a.m. people still up." She lives alone in a midtown hotel on West 44th Street-"just opposite the Algonquin" and only a few steps away from The New Yorker -and she has a canny, survivor's eye for a bargain. "The coffee at Bickford's is only 16?," she will say, "but they rob you at Childs." She broods on the differences between Woolworth's and Lamston...
Maeve Brennan came from Dublin to America with her family in 1934, when she was 17. She has lived here ever since. She worked at first for Harper's Bazaar, but in the 1940s her work caught the eye of New Yorker Editor William Shawn, who encouraged her to do the Long-Winded Lady pieces and stories as well. Her seven-year marriage to Fellow New Yorker Writer St. Clair McKelway ended in divorce...