At 85, he's still designing buildings
Wallace Harrison, the Rockefeller Center designer, remains active at age 85. His career spans Rockefeller Center, United Nations, Albany Mall, Lincoln Center, and Radio City Music Hall. He left his firm in 1979 to pursue small-scale work, art, and memories of a vast architectural era.
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Harrison
Rockefeller Center
Albany Mall
Metropolitan Opera House
Wallace Harrison
Rick Hampson
Associated Press
New York
Wallace K. Harrison
United Nations
Lincoln Center
Gershwin
Philadelphia
Robert Venturi
Prometheus
Rockefeller
Wally
New York Times
Rockefellers
Carol Krimsky
New York University
Exxon
Albany
Long Island
Nelson Rockefeller
Westchester
Fifth Avenue
Gen
John Pershing
Pennsylvania Avenue
Washington
Pershing
Robert White
Stanford White
Worcester
Mass
McKim, Mead & White
Ellen Milton
Abby Rockefeller
John D. Rocckefeller Jr
New York City
Palmistry myth and dinner table desserts collide
Dear Ann Landers says palmistry is neither science nor art yet can be a sales pitch for con artists. The writer worries about crowding a second child after her husband’s short life lines and wonders if palm readers mislead, while another reader notes social dinners with arriving guests bringing dessert and the hostess serves it anyway.
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Ann Landers
Oatzy
Hicksville
Barnum
Dear Ann Landers on guests bringing dessert and family boundaries
Ann Landers suggests guests bring a simple treat and acknowledges store bought or home made. She notes etiquette favors not arriving empty handed and advises a polite response such as complimenting the effort while saving the host's special dish by freezing the guest dessert. She promotes a fixer for parent-child tension with her booklet and provides a mailing address for requests.
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Ann Landers
P.O
Chicago
Ill
President and First Lady radiate at White House dinner
Betty Beale reports on a White House dinner for German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt and wife. Claudette Colbert dazzled in a Bill Blass gown and praised by Francesca Lodge as radiating youthful charm. Guests included Vernon Jordan, Walter Annenberg, Jenne Kirkpatrick, Arthur Burns, and Space Shuttle figures John Young and Bob Crippen.
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Betty Beale
Washington
D.C
Reagan White House
Nancy
Helmut Schmidt
Francesca Lodge
John Davis Lodge
Claudette Colbert
Colbert
Bill Blass
Francesca
Ronald Reagan
Bob Adams
White House
Efrem
Vernon Jordan
National Urban League
Tie
Walter Annenberg
Jordan
Annenberg
Waller
Vernon
Reagans
Jenne Kirkpatrick
Waldorf Towers
Andy Young
Arthur Burns
Helen
Germany
Arthur
Burns
Vicontesse de Ribes
Frank van der Kamp
Chicago
Rockwell International
Bob Andersen
John
Hayes suffers second operation for retained sponge
Former Ohio State coach Woody Hayes, 68, remains in satisfactory condition after a second operation at University Hospital in Columbus to remove a surgical sponge left in his abdomen from gallbladder surgery on May 9. X rays showed the sponge after a fever and infection prompted readmission and surgery by Dr. Larry Carey and Dr. William Smead.
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Ohio State
Woody Hayes
Hayes
University Hospital
Columbus
Ohio
Nancy Grover
Larry Carey
William Smead
Department of Health, Physical Education and Recreation
Clemson
Veteran climber Dave Mahre Eyes Everest Summit at 55
At 43, father of World Cup stars Phil and Steve Mahre plans a bold ascent of Everest via the unclimbed Chinese north face next summer. If successful, he would become the oldest to reach the world’s highest peak, joining expedition led by Lou Whitaker after years of climbing Rainier and Cascades.
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NBC
Fred Silverman
RCA Corp
Los Angeles
Silverman
RCA
Thornton Bradshaw
Entertainment Weekly
Variaty
The
Christian Science Monitor
Variety
Bradshaw
Yakima
Wash
Dave Mahre
Mount
Everest
Phil
Steve Mahre
Mahre
Mount Rainier
Mount Tahoma
Cascades
Lou
Jim Whittaker
Chris Chandler
Jim Wickwire
Willie Unsoeld
Lou Whittaker
White Pass
Whittaker
Rainier
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Nelson
Max Abramovitz
la Guardia
Hopkins Center
Dartmouth College
Hanover
N.H
Hall of Science
Guild of Loretto Geriatric Center
LeMoyne Manor
James Surtees
Guild
Tyler Dudley
Wilfred Evans
Loretto
Norman Harper
Young
Bob Crippen
Decatur House
Crippen
John Glenn
Jack
Bunny Wrather
the Family Circus
Nancy Reagan
Ronnie
Helen Hayes
Broadway
Holy Cross College
Holy Cross School
Fredericka
Miss Hayes
Madelon Claudet
Upt Telephoto
Mahres
Phares
Ecramer&son New
Hartford
DeWitt
New Fladford Shopping Center
DeWitt Pen Sun
Hiawatha Mills
Geoffrey Beene
Hunter
Evan Picone
Garland
Collegetown
Catalina
Erie Blvd
Jack Applesead
Lisa
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