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100 New Yorkers of the 1970s
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Title: 100 New Yorkers of the 1970s
Author: Max Millard
Release Date: December 24, 2005 [eBook #17385]
Language: English
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100 New Yorkers of the 1970s
By Max Millard
Dedication: to Bruce Logan, who made this book possible.
Copyright 2005 by Max Millard
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INTRODUCTION
The interviews for this book were conducted from May 1977 to December 1979. They appeared as cover stories for the _TV Shopper_, a free weekly paper that was distributed to homes and businesses in New York City. Founded by Bruce Logan in the mid-1970s as the __West Side TV Shopper__, it consisted of TV listings, advertisements, and two full-page stories per issue. One was a "friendly" restaurant review of an advertiser; the other was a profile of a prominent resident of the Upper West Side of Manhattan. The honoree's face appeared on the cover, framed by a TV screen.
The formula was successful enough so that in 1978, Bruce began publishing the _East Side TV Shopper next >