Word: midtown
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Piggyback" Discount. At the big midtown newsstands, dealers are returning twice as many unsold papers as usual, and sales are off 12.5%. The fat Times is faring best, say the dealers, with a dropoff of only 5%-not bad considering the fact that it has doubled its newsstand price to 10?. As for the Herald Tribune, which also hiked its price by a nickel, circulation is off-but just how much will not be known until the Audit Bureau of Circulation releases its next official, semiannual report sometime after Sept. 30. "It has held up better than we anticipated," says...
...dresses, sports jackets, luggage, lingerie and baby clothes. On successive days Hassan returned again and again, and a dazed Saks official said, "He's bought in almost every category. You could say he's done practically the whole store." Then the King and couriers swept through other midtown stores like a beneficent hurricane, cleaning the shelves of cameras, hi-fis, records and color TV sets...
...Wakeman had dropped from sight after The Hucksters, he might have been remembered as the Jack London of Manhattan's midtown. Instead, he kept on turning out novels, risking the law of averages. A Free Agent is the worst of a dreary descent. The author has lost his knack of writing badly well. Worse news, the hero is not world-wise but incredibly doltish, even allowing for the fact that he is supposed to be some kind of intelligence agent...
...them are rented at or near capacity (the overall vacancy rate is 3%). As the U.S.'s Headquarters City, New York seems to find eager customers for every new square foot. Only 30 years ago, the skeptics laughed derisively when John D. Rockefeller Jr. built Rockefeller Center in midtown. But now that real estate, foot for foot, is probably the most valuable in town...
Accept or Reject. Knowing hands pointed out that just after she handed in her resignation to the association at a meeting in midtown Manhattan's Daily News building, she scooted off to meet Powers at an uptown hotel. After nearly three hours, she emerged with Powers to announce that she would immediately begin calling some-but not all-of her 1,183 employees back to work under the old contracts. But it might not be that easy to get back in print on the cheap; the American Newspaper Guild advised its members to report for work, whether they were...