JR. A man for all seasons
WESTSIDER LEE FALK Creator of The Phantom and Mandrake the
Magician
WESTSIDER BARRY FARBER Radio talkmaster and linguist
WESTSIDER SUZANNE FARRELL Star of the New York City Ballet
WESTSIDER JULES FEIFFER Screenwriter for Popeye the Sailor
EASTSIDER GERALDINE FITZGERALD Actress, director and
singer
EASTSIDER JOAN FONTAINE Actress turns author with No Bed of
Roses
WESTSIDER BETTY FRIEDAN Founder of the women's liberation
movement
WESTSIDER ARTHUR FROMMER Author of Europe on $10 a Day
EASTSIDER WILLIAM GAINES Publisher and founder of Mad
magazine
WESTSIDER RALPH GINZBURG Publisher of Moneysworth
EASTSIDER LILLIAN GISH 78 years in show business
WESTSIDER MILTON GLASER Design director of the new Esquire
WESTSIDER PAUL GOLDBERGER Architecture critic for the New
York Times
EASTSIDER MILTON GOLDMAN Broadway's super agent
EASTSIDER TAMMY GRIMES Star of Father's Day at the American
Place Theatre
WESTSIDER DELORES HALL Star of Your Arms Too Short to Box
with God
WESTSIDER LIONEL HAMPTON King of the Newport Jazz Festival
WESTSIDER DAVID HAWK Executive director of Amnesty
International U.S.A.
EASTSIDER WALTER HOVING Chairman of Tiffany & Company
EASTSIDER JAY JACOBS Restaurant critic for Gourmet magazine
WESTSIDER RAUL JULIA Star of Dracula on Broadway
EASTSIDER BOB KANE Creator of Batman and Robin
WESTSIDER LENORE KASDORF Star of The Guiding Light
EASTSIDER BRIAN KEITH Back on Broadway after 27 years
WESTSIDER HAROLD KENNEDY Author of No Pickle, No
Performance
WESTSIDER ANNA KISSELGOFF Dance critic for the New York
Times
WESTSIDER GEORGE LANG Owner of the Cafe des Artistes
WESTSIDER RUTH LAREDO Leading American pianist
EASTSIDER STAN LEE Creator of Spiderman and the Incredible
Hulk
EASTSIDER JOHN LEONARD Book critic for the New York Times
WESTSIDER JOHN LINDSAY International lawyer
WESTSIDER ALAN LOMAX Sending songs into outer space
EASTSIDER PETER MAAS Author of Serpico and Made in America
WESTSIDER LEONARD MALTIN Film historian and critic
EASTSIDER JEAN MARSH Creator and star of Upstairs, Downstairs
EASTSIDER JACKIE MASON Co-starring with Steve Martin in The
Jerk
WESTSIDER MALACHY McCOURT Actor and social critic
WESTSIDER MEAT LOAF Hottest rock act in town
WESTSIDER ANN MILLER Co-star of Sugar Babies
WESTSIDER SHERRILL MILNES Opera superstar
WESTSIDER CARLOS MONTOYA Master of the flamenco guitar
WESTSIDER MELBA MOORE Broadway star releases ninth album
WESTSIDER MICHAEL MORIARTY Star of Holocaust returns to
Broadway in G.R. Point
WESTSIDER LeROY NEIMAN America's greatest popular artist
WESTSIDER ARNOLD NEWMAN Great portrait photographer
EASTSIDER EDWIN NEWMAN Journalist and first-time novelist
EASTSIDER LARRY O'BRIEN Commissioner of the National
Basketball Association
WESTSIDER MAUREEN O'SULLIVAN Great lady of the movie
screen
WESTSIDER BETSY PALMER Star of Same Time, Next Year
WESTSIDER JAN PEERCE The man with the golden voice
EASTSIDER GEORGE PLIMPTON Author, editor and adventurer
EASTSIDER OTTO PREMINGER Rebel filmmaker returns with The
Human Factor
WESTSIDER CHARLES RANGEL Congressman of the 19th District
WESTSIDER JOE RAPOSO Golden boy of American composers
WESTSIDER MASON REESE Not just another kid
WESTSIDER MARTY REISMAN America's best-loved ping-pong
player
WESTSIDER RUGGIERO RICCI World's most-recorded violinist
WESTSIDER BUDDY RICH Monarch of the drums
WESTSIDER GERALDO RIVERA Broadcaster, author and
humanitarian
WESTSIDER NED ROREM Author and Pulitzer Prize-winning
composer
WESTSIDER JULIUS RUDEL Director of the New York City Opera
EASTSIDER DR. LEE SALK America's foremost child psychologist
EASTSIDER FRANCESCO SCAVULLO Photographer of the world's
most beautiful women
WESTSIDER ROGER SESSIONS Composer of the future
EASTSIDER DICK SHAWN Veteran comic talks about Love at First
Bite
EASTSIDER GEORGE SHEARING Famed jazz pianist returns to
New York
WESTSIDER REID SHELTON The big-hearted billionaire of Annie
WESTSIDER BOBBY SHORT Mr. New York to perform in Newport
Jazz Festival
WESTSIDER BEVERLY SILLS Opera superstar
GEORGE SINGER 46 years a doorman on the West Side
WESTSIDER GREGG SMITH Founder and conductor of the Gregg
Smith Singers
EASTSIDER LIZ SMITH Queen of gossip
EASTSIDERS TOM & DICK SMOTHERS Stars of I Love My Wife on
Broadway
WESTSIDER VICTOR TEMKIN Publisher of Berkley and Jove
Books
WESTSIDER JOHN TESH Anchorman for WCBS Channel 2 News
WESTSIDER RICHARD THOMAS John-Boy teams up with Henry
Fonda in Roots II
EASTSIDER ANDY WARHOL Pop artist and publisher of Interview
magazine
EASTSIDER ARNOLD WEISSBERGER Theatrical attorney for
superstars
EASTSIDER TOM WICKER Author and columnist for the New York
Times
EASTSIDER TOM WOLFE Avant-garde author talks about The Right
Stuff
WESTSIDER PINCHAS ZUKERMAN Violinist and conductor
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WESTSIDER CLEVELAND AMORY Author, radio humorist, and
president of the Fund for Animals
12-9-78
It's impossible to mistake the voice if you've heard it once -- the tone of
mock annoyance, the twangy, almost whiny drawl that rings musically
in the ear. It could easily belong to a cartoon character or a top TV
pitchman, but it doesn't. It belongs to Cleveland Amory, an affable and
rugged individualist who has been a celebrated writer for more than
half of his 61 years. Amory is also a highly regarded lecturer and radio
essayist: his one-minute humor spot, Curmudgeon at Large, is heard
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