“I could tell you what you want to know, but I must worry about my wife and family — they could be killed.” — a former top B.C.C.I. officer “We better not talk about this over the phone
B.C.C.I.: The Dirtiest Bank of All
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Music: Four Saints and Mr. Thomson
A Manhattan audience, looking unseasonably plushy, last week cooed and clapped its way through the revival of a cockeyed opera—Four Saints in Three Acts. The author of its words, expatriate Gertrude Stein, is still expatriate in Occupied France
VETERANS: Old Soldiers’ Soldier
The great transition was taking place without violence.
Medicine: Misuse of Antibiotics
To the growing list of undesirable side effects resulting from treatment with antibiotics, Manhattan's Dr. Jerome Weiss last week added one that most patients may prefer not to talk about, though it can be both painful and serious: antibiotic diarrhea
The Press: Trial by Reporters
Cruising in the West Indies in December 1934, Vera Stretz met Dr. Fritz Gebhardt.
Art: Man v. Man
Is there an underlying theme that runs through the history of art, from the figures scratched on walls of prehistoric caves to splashes and forms on contemporary canvases?
Extended Stay Bankruptcy Examiner Mabey Files Report Under Seal
Extended Stay Hotels Inc.’s examiner filed under seal his report addressing claims that two private-equity firms schemed with the hotel chain’s senior lenders to push out junior debt holders and take over the company by bankrupting it. Ralph Mabey, a former bankruptcy judge, filed his report under seal yesterday in Extended Stay’s case docket. U.S. […]
Brief History: Ticker-Tape Parades
Fresh off their 27th World Series win, the New York Yankees will take a victory lap through lower Manhattan on the morning of Nov. 6.
Get Out of Manhattan
From Long Island to New Jersey to upstate New York, the past year has seen a miniboom in sophisticated new retreats opening in the resort communities surrounding New York City.
California artist contemplates Islam’s holy book
Of all things, it was surfing that first led Sandow Birk to Islam. The southern California artist rode the waves in Indonesia, India and Morocco, and on dry land, his curiosity piqued about the religion practiced there