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This year, four campuses further uptown, Columbia is celebrating the 200th year since President Johnson first began classes in Trinity Church's vestry room. Two weeks from today on October 31, the day Kind George 11 signed the charter, the last of three great convocations will be held on Morning side Heights. It will climax one of the most extensive--and praiseworthy-- birthday celebrations ever undertaken by an American university...
...Columbia's possession, however, gradually increasing in value until it became the site for Reockefeller Center. It now pays the University a yearly rent of three and a half million dollars. By the time this rent was coming in the University had had to move again to the uptown bluffs now known as Morningside Heights...
...Manhattan last week, newspapers ran double-truck ads with the word "Go", in 15-in.-high type. The small type below explained that Ohrbach's famed and prosperous clothing supermarket was leaving its down-at-the-heels quarters on 14th Street to go 20 blocks uptown and "join the well-to-do company of Macy's and Gimbels...
...Look. The customers who followed Ohrbach's uptown found a big change from the cluttered aisles and creaky flooring of the old store. The new Ohrbach's (actually the 47-year-old James McCreery department store, remodeled) sported carpets of grey and buff, walls of pastel pinks and blues, modern display cases, more try-on rooms. But nothing was changed in the business methods that have made Ohrbach's a phenomenon of U.S. merchandising...
...avant-garde-in years. In The Golden Apple, it offered the season's one really individual musical. And the Phoenix's Golden Apple, like the Theatre de Lys' End As a Man, like the Circle in the Square's Girl on the Via Flaminia, went uptown in time to Broadway. Other off-Broadway successes: Marc Blitzstein's English version of Kurt Weill's Threepenny Opera, Leslie Stevens' Bullfight, and-after a late opening the season before-The World of Sholem Aleichem...