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Guest Diary• December 17, 2018

What to Wear Where to a Debutante Ball

At this time of year some of us have ginger plum fairies dancing in our heads,  the young among us listen for the prancing of each little hoof, and the rest of us are dashing through the snow for last minute shopping, whilst an intimate group of young women are engaged in a time-honored tradition, […]...

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Strolling the Avenue in advance of the 32nd Miracle on Madison Avenue

Guest Diary• November 29, 2018.
Get ready to fa la la, fa la la while strolling Madison Avenue on Saturday, December 1st, as the 32nd Miracle on Madison Avenue takes place to benefit the pediatric programs of The Society of Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center. What could be a more meaningful way to source the perfect gifts for all of […]... READ MORE
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Schulenberg’s Page: New York, Part CLXXXV

Guest Diary• November 29, 2018.
August, 1970. To take your mind off of the cold — if it’s cold where you’re reading this, let me take you back to August, 1970 in New York where it is decidedly not cold! In fact it is undeniably hot! And I found myself on a hot subway going to Brooklyn to see a musical. My friends […]... READ MORE
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No Holds Barred: Bringing it in NYC

Guest Diary• November 28, 2018.
All my friends warned me that I would really have to “bring it” on my recent NYC visit.  The city was struggling between frequent rains and 40 mph winds and the upcoming mid-term elections.  They insisted I better bring my best “game face.” A tough proposition since I hate to travel, and New York trips […]... READ MORE
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Schulenberg’s Page: New York, Part CLXXXIV

Guest Diary• November 8, 2018.
November, 1969, on the 23rd, a Sunday, Vice President Spiro Agnew was still calling the media biased for reporting the My Lai Massacre and there’d been a huge anti-war moratorium with two million people in Washington. While all this was going on, I distracted myself and took the Subway with a friend to go to […]... READ MORE
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Schulenberg’s Page: New York, Part CLXXXIII

Guest Diary• November 1, 2018.
I’m going back to 1969 because I overlooked almost the whole end of the year, the end of the ’60s, one of the most creative yet turbulent decades in American history! Paul Bartel and I were driving out to his aunt Connie’s beautiful old stone house a quarter of a mile from the Delaware River.  Connie had turned her […]... READ MORE
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Schulenberg’s Page: New York, Part CLXXXII

Guest Diary• October 26, 2018.
1956. I got a surprise! A visit from an old army buddy! Jim Dwyer. Yes. I was in the army. Drafted! I used to wonder why I had no memory of a graduation from UCLA! I knew I had graduated. Finally I put it together. I’d been drafted and sent to Fort Ord just before […]... READ MORE
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Schulenberg’s Page: New York, Part CLXXXI

Guest Diary• October 18, 2018.
In early March of 1970 a townhouse on West 11th Street in Greenwich Village exploded killing three members of Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) who were presumably building a bomb in the basement! Other members of SDS (Weathermen) went underground becoming known as the Weather Underground! A month earlier a bomb had exploded outside […... READ MORE
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Schulenberg’s Page: New York, Part CLXXX

Guest Diary• October 11, 2018.
1970: This is my friend, Craig Caswell whom I’d met two years earlier in August of 1968. When I first met him he’d come up to Manhattan from Washington, DC where he was a student at Georgetown’s School of Foreign Service. I was immediately struck by his very obvious intelligence. He’d gone to a prep […]... READ MORE
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Schulenberg’s Page: New York, Part CLXXIX

Guest Diary• October 4, 2018.
February, 1970. There used to be an Automat Restaurant on East 86th Street in Yorkville, Manhattan. My friend, Ray Smith and I met there for lunch which at any of the Automats meant also people watching. As I was drawing, a man came by our table and seeing that I was drawing, made a few […]... READ MORE
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Schulenberg’s Page: New York, Part CLXXVIII

Guest Diary• September 27, 2018.
Winter, 1970. Another week in Manhattan. While I was still occupied every day with the NBC FALL TELEVISION newspaper campaign there were still a lot of social and cultural events available.  At the George Abbott Theater there was some noise around the opening of Gantry, starring Robert Shaw and Rita Moreno. My best friend from UCLA, fraternit... READ MORE
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Schulenberg’s Page: New York, Part CLXXVII

Guest Diary• September 20, 2018.
A graffiti seen on the restroom wall at Elaine’s gives a pretty good idea of what the mood of the late ’60s was in New York. There was also the exact opposite mood of anti-Vietnam War fury seen on the streets during protests and demonstrations! But life continued with people in laundromats, at markets and […]... READ MORE
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Schulenberg’s Page: New York, Part CLXXVI

Guest Diary• September 13, 2018.
A 1970 attempt at humorous social criticism from The American Legion Magazine.  The split between generations was widening. Dennis Abby (or Abbé) had been an illustrator and became fascinated with the decorative possibilities of working with glass.  In a short time he became sought after for Art Deco inspired glass architectural and decorati... READ MORE

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