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...debt, and struggling to support my family while completing my training. With luck I will be able to open my office at the age of 35, thereby going further into debt. However, when I die at about 55 or 60 (20 years from the time of my gala opening), I will be able to say that I am free and clear. Hasn't the time come for an Essay about the four-day-a-week, four-hour-a-day executives...
They said goodbye to the grand old lady of 39th Street with a gala wake. The farewell performance at Manhattan's old Metropolitan Opera House (1883-1966) drew 3,900 guests and three generations of conductors to reminisce through hits and bits from 25 operas. The hello to the new house had actually started with a bang a few days earlier. KER-BLAM! went the sawed-off 12-gauge shotgun fired for a sound test. "O say! can you see . . ." roared the 3,200 New York City schoolchildren in the Met's new, $45,700,000 house...
...convention program of a political party, or in any other publication" or for "admission to any dinner or program" if any part of the net proceeds "inures to a political party or to a political candidate." Nor would write-offs be allowed for "admission to an inaugural ball, inaugural gala, or similar event identified with a political party or a political candidate...
...Galanos, such informality is unthinkable. "Women want to put on long gowns," he points out. "What else can give them that special gala feeling? Who wants to go to a formal dance in the same-length dress she wears all day?" To create that special feeling, Galanos depended largely on chiffon and sex. Taking a cue from the new bathing suits, he draped nude chiffon across deeply plunging necklines or stretched it tantalizingly across back or midriff. Some of the tops were too brief even to hide a bra, and the models had nothing to rely on but moral support...
Originally, John Lindsay's inauguration as New York's first Republican mayor in 20 years was planned to be the city's most gala political fling since George Washington's presidential inauguration in 1789. There was to be a sort of floating celebration, with swinging parties in all five boroughs and a glittering inaugural ball in Manhattan. Mike Quill's strike fixed all that-everything was canceled except the ball-but it could not subdue the high spirit and fresh style that John Lindsay brought to a tired office. In the inaugural ballroom...