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...decided that the idea amounted to a personal rather than a commercial proposition, and was a blatant sexist pitch. Three of them on a Halloween flight from New York to Miami displayed a cardboard cutout of a wrinkled witch in boots and military-type jacket with a Fly Me button. "If the ads would just say, 'Fly with me,' " complained Stewardess Ilene Held, "we'd be asking people to fly as part of our airline. It's the live stuff that gets to men, that makes them think 'let's fly with National...
...what it is, and I don't want to know." Rudel came to the U.S. in 1938 as a teen-age refugee from Vienna. Studying music on scholarships at settlement schools and later at Manhattan's Mannes College, he supported himself by working part time in a button-dyeing factory. After graduation he became assistant conductor at Mannes at a salary of $35 a month. "We used to turn in the milk bottles so he would have enough money to go to work," remembers his wife Rita. A neuropsychologist, she raised their two daughters (now married...
...Dick Button, former U.S. and Olympic Champion, will serve as Master of Ceremonies for the program, in addition, many Boston area skaters will also participate in the benefit...
...Safe Place concerns the soggy daydreams of a rich little hippie who is known alternately as Susan and Noah (Tuesday Weld). S/N has a button-down suitor (Philip Proctor), a lover named Mitch (Jack Nicholson) who may or may not have recently murdered his wife, and an unhappy penchant for remembering an old Jewish magician (Orson Welles) who told her parables one day long ago in Central Park. Jaglom spends most of his time cutting abruptly back and forth between scenes of fantasy and reality with a technique that is about as experimental as your cousin's old Chemcraft...
...approached in the sordid lounge of the famed Alcron Hotel by a portly, fortyish fellow who sported a handsome toothbrush mustache and a button-down Oxford-cloth shirt. He plumped himself down in an overstuffed armchair next to me. After ordering scotch with water "but no ice," he introduced himself as "Roger Smith, a professor of social sciences." He noted that he was an American scholar studying the aftereffects of the "Prague Spring" and the Soviet invasion. With a heavy Slavic accent, he lapsed for several minutes into part sociological jargon, part hilariously outdated American slang, last heard...