Writer gives an account of a train derailment which killed two people in a suburb of San Bernadino, CA, and caused a subsequent rupture of a fuel pipeline …
George W. S. Trow
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This story begins with a quotation from "People" magazine which tells of the decline of Marguax Hemingway who was finally helped at the Betty Ford clinic. …
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("Dallas" update: For a while recently, it seemed possible that Jock Ewing, family patriarch, presumed dead in a South American plane crash, was alive and …
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Victoria Feldman is at a large dinner party given by her cousin, Sophie Aspair, who is known as the last Mrs. Aspair, although there are others. Sophie was…
George W. S. Trow’s classic essay on American society and the decline of adulthood.
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Part 2 of George W. S. Trow’s 1978 Profile of the founder of Atlantic Records, “the most arresting figure in the American music business.”
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Music executives in the late sixties were often cynical about rock stars—but never about Ahmet Ertegun, the Atlantic Records chairman who practically signed them all, George W. S. Trow writes.
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These days if you press Bobby too closely about his energy budget, Bobby will get too anxious. I'll run down some of the things that have come up so …
Parody of diary notes from reporter on the 1976 Democratic Convention, the Presidential campaign, the Inauguration, and the beginning of Carter's …
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Prince Philip has started an interior-decorating firm in his continuing efforts to express himself in his own way and not rely on his wife's fame for …
George W. S. Trow profiles the former Vogue editor Diana Vreeland, as she prepares a fashion exhibit at the Metropolitan Museum’s Costume Institute, titled “Romantic and Glamorous Hollywood Design.”
George W. S. Trow’s 1974 account of the wedding of Sly Stone and Kathy Silva, at Madison Square Garden.
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PROFILE of Kal Rudman, who promotes records & picks hits in the AM-Top-Forty-radio section of the popular-music business. At 42 & a former disc jockey, he …
George W. S. Trow’s 1974 account of the wedding of Sly Stone and Kathy Silva, at Madison Square Garden.