Word: yorks
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Died. Fairfield Osborn, 82, crusading conservationist and from 1940 to 1968 president of the New York Zoological Society; in Manhattan. A wildlife enthusiast with a flair for showmanship -he once attended luncheon with a skunk, a chimpanzee and a ring-tailed lemur in tow-Osborn was among the earliest campaigners against wanton killing of animals, pollution and the many ways that man has of hurting his environment, and in two highly popular books, Our Plundered Planet (1948) and The Limits of the Earth (1953), he examined the need for swift, strict environmental control. "Are we not," he once asked, "running...
BOAC talked a New York agency, Arthur Frommer's $5-a-Day Tours, into handling the bookings, and scheduled the first flight for Nov. 1. Launching their advertising campaign, BOAC officials sat back to watch Britain's balance of payments deficit turn into a surplus. "We hope," a spokesman said, "that the accent is on entertainment rather than...
...content to be a political kingmaker, Franklin D. Roosevelt fancied himself a prince-of-the-church maker as well. He lobbied successfully for Francis Spellman's appointment as archbishop of New York, and in 1939, when Chicago's George William Cardinal Mundelein died, F.D.R. had his hand-picked candidate for the nation's largest archdiocese. This time he failed. Chicago Auxiliary Bishop Bernard James Sheil, the Roosevelt choice, was bypassed because he had irritated too many others inside and outside the church. Last week, after Sheil's death at 83 of heart disease, friends attending...
...nation's theater never lives by money and talent alone. Zest, hard work, devotion and love must be present. One woman in New York epitomizes those qualities: Ellen Stewart, the indefatigable doyenne of off-off-Broad way's experimental Café La Mama. Out of La Mama have come Jean-Claude van Itallie (America Hurrah!), Tom O'Horgan, (director of Futz and Hair), Sam Shepard (the 27-year-old author of Red Cross and Chicago), Leonard Melfi (Jack and Jill) and a host of others. Ellen Stewart announces the evening's program by ringing a homely...
...York Film Festival shows signs of becoming a kind of Pre-Vue Theater. There are no winners or losers, since no prizes are given. Over half of the 23 films presented this year at Lincoln Center will show up in regular theaters soon (in some cases only days) after their festival screening. Begun seven years ago as a showcase for the choice of the European festivals, New York's staid and sometimes pompous affair has thus each year become more and more a distributors' proving ground. Oddly enough, the attitude of the festival's sponsors doesn...