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DIED. DOROTHY STICKNEY, 101, original spouse in Broadway's longest-running play, the fusty comedy Life with Father; in Manhattan. Stickney starred with Howard Lindsay, the play's co-author and her real-life husband. In 1939 the couple left a glitch-filled opening night in tears, but audiences adored the play's domestic drollery, sitting through seven years and some 3,200 performances...
Hundreds of well-dressed women are sniffing one another. They sit under a marquee spelling THAT'S SCENTERTAINMENT in Manhattan's Lincoln Center, asking one another, "Do you like my fragrance?" The answer, invariably...
...COMMON SENSE BOOK OF BABY AND CHILD CARE (1946) Dr. Benjamin Spock, a Manhattan pediatrician, wrote down what he had learned from his practice and launched an upheaval in how parents rear children. His advice on how to value love over rules went on to sell 50 million copies and earned him, unfairly, blame as the "permissive" father of the '60s' youthful demonstrators...
...Douglas is the author of Terrible Honesty: Mongrel Manhattan in the 1920s
...wasn't until 1925 that Rodgers and Hart had a major hit. They wrote the songs for a lighthearted revue called The Garrick Gaieties. Its Manhattan was an overnight success, and the legendary partnership was flying at last. Such songs as The Lady Is a Tramp, Dancing on the Ceiling, My Heart Stood Still and Blue Moon etched the duo a permanent place in theater history...