Word: deliverymen
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Except for short walks with her sister Lee Radziwill or Caroline, Jacqueline Kennedy stayed mostly out of public sight in the Georgetown house that she had borrowed from the Averell Harrimans. Press Secretary Pamela Turnure came and went; deliverymen made their rounds; friends and relations came to call. Dave Powers, her husband's Bos ton friend, stayed for lunch one day; Bobby Kennedy dropped in often. There were the holidays to plan for. They would be spent in Palm Beach, in a house borrowed from a family friend, C. Michael Paul, near the Joseph Kennedys. And, it was announced...
When Playwright Neil Simon first married, he and his wife Joan moved into an apartment in a brownstone on East Tenth Street in Manhattan. It was four flights up, plus the additional steps of the front stoop. When deliverymen arrived with the furniture, they collapsed on it and sat there for a quarter of an hour with their mouths open and only the whites of their eyes showing...
...first and only smash of the present Broadway season and is already sold out through February. With Elizabeth Ashley as his spritely wife and Robert Redford as a rough facsimile of himself, the play precisely duplicates the events, rents and blizzards of the Simons' golden past, with deliverymen reeling into view like sherpas out of shape, and the young couple fighting the plausible battles of youth...
...Then, with $250,000 rolling in from Hollywood for the movie rights to Blow Your Horn, Simon set himself up in a 57th Street office and began working a 71-hour day. He still does, commuting from his new and airy high-ceilinged apartment on Central Park West, where deliverymen arrive pink-cheeked and puffless and are let in by two little girls...
...other side of the scrap stood the Publishers Association of New York, a management team organized in iSg; for the express purpose of presenting labor with a united front. From experience, most recently the 1958 walkout of deliverymen that gagged New York's press for 19 days, the association has evolved a simple strategy: to close all member papers as soon as one is struck. Thus, when the I.T.U. picketed four papers, the publishers promptly closed five more: the Herald Tribune, the Mirror and the Post in Manhattan, and Samuel Newhouse's two Long Island dailies, the Press...