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...Sotheby's of a group of early Russian avant-garde paintings owned by the late George Costakis was a disaster, with major figures like Alexander Rodchenko and Liubov Popova falling to levels 25% to 50% under the low estimates. The worst debacle was experienced last week by the Manhattan auction house of Habsburg, Feldman Inc., whose offering of Impressionist and modern works (estimate: $35 million to $47 million) sold only eleven of 78 items for a total of $1.8 million...
...mayor of Herrin, Ill., where cable rates have risen 125% since 1986. Three months ago, New York became the first state to pass consumer-protection legislation aimed at penalizing cable abuses. And last week the New York City board of estimate, in a preliminary vote, refused to renew the Manhattan franchises of two cable companies, both substantially owned by Time Warner, that have been the target of customer complaints...
...people think this is a problem only of big inner-city hospitals, they are wrong. They may be dead wrong," says Dr. Stephan Lynn, the director of the emergency department at Manhattan's St. Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital. It is true that there are healthy suburban hospitals that have been largely spared the city's crises. But many rural hospitals are also swamped with trauma cases: farming, fishing and forestry are the most dangerous occupations in America. Isolated from major urban centers, rural hospitals are struggling to recruit and train emergency physicians and to pay for the sophisticated trauma networks...
...last spring, a group of people gathered in a private room at the Century Association, an elite club in Manhattan, to meet their new boss. They were all senior staff members of the New York Public Library and, not knowing who the new president might be, they were all edgy. For one thing, who could possibly replace Vartan Gregorian, the charismatic fund raiser who had led them out of fiscal ruin? And, of more immediate concern, should they have a drink while waiting? Perhaps not. After all, a leading contender was known to be Timothy S. Healy, a Jesuit priest...
Another reason Healy relished CUNY was that his job put him in the thick of things in his beloved hometown. He grew up as the eldest of four children in comfortable circumstances, mostly on Manhattan's Upper East Side. His Australian father had been a wildcat oilman in Texas until the 1929 Crash wiped him out. Later he fetched up as host of a Proctor & Gamble radio show, Captain Tim Healy's Stamp Club, on NBC. He had a short fuse and a robust disregard for social conventions and was a devout Catholic...