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...hope of attracting a few strays, newspapers all over the neighborhood boosted their press runs. The Newark (N.J.) Star-Ledger rolled an extra 50,000 Sunday copies and sold 20,000. Hearst's evening Manhattan paper, the Journal-American, claimed a gain of 75,000 daily. The New York Times got a 25,000 boost both daily and Sunday. But Vice President Ivan Veit said that the Times's serialization of the Eisenhower memoirs probably accounted for most of that. New York Herald Tribune President Walter Thayer reported a modest circulation rise, but decided not to give...
...first met in 1915, Frost was 40 and almost unknown in the U.S.; his first volume of verse had just been brought out in England, where he was "discovered" in 1913. Untermeyer, 29 and full of enterprise, was trying to escape from his father's jewelry business in Newark by establishing a beachhead as poet and critic. The early letters are full of chesty exchanged praises for each other's work-"please send by return boastage," Frost punned to Untermeyer in 1921-as well as attacks on both the free-versers and traditional poets who still...
...Time of the Barracudas stars Elaine Stritch and Laurence Harvey as a pair of murderers who are married and are trying to bump each other off (November). Eddie Mayehoff and Dody Goodman are a union leader and a lady manufacturer in Howard Teichmann's A Rainy Day in Newark (Oct. 22). Dore Schary will direct Larry Parks in Love and Kisses, about teenage marriage (Dec. 16). And Mike Nichols will stage Barefoot in the Park, Neil (Come Blow Your Horn) Simon's new comedy about a young couple in Greenwich Village...
Manhattan Transfer. Last week the Brenninkmeyers were well on their way to gaining control of the cash-and-carry Ohrbach's chain ("A business in millions, a profit in pennies"), which has sales of some $75 million from five low-markup clothing "supermarkets" in Manhattan, Newark, Long Island and greater Los Angeles. The Brenninkmeyers bought an interest of roughly 47% in the chain last year, have an agreement to buy the remaining shares from Founder and Chairman Nathan Ohrbach when he decides to retire; Ohr-bach is vigorous and determined to stay on, but he is also 77. Fortnight...
...NEWARK, NJ. Protesting discrimination against Negroes and Puerto Ricans on construction jobs, more than 50 pickets blocked the way of 35 construction men as they arrived for work at the site of a new high school. The construction workers charged. For ten minutes they battled the pickets, some of whom were white, before cops broke it up with billy clubs. No one was seriously injured. Two of the pickets were arrested...