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Thursday Feb 23 1 978 THE MIAMI HERALD 5-B DIVORCE! $100 Attorney fee uncontested divorce For information call DAVID FRIEDMAN Esq Phone 358-8900 Jon-Michael Reed bring you up-to-date on your favorite Soaps every Monday on the television page of The Miami Herald Tune into the latest CB chatter with Jim Martenhotf every Monday New Yorkers at Home In Cozy Copy of Sardi PERSON TO PERSON grace wing bohne msmwzm JHZGB You would have thought you were in New York instead of Miami Skyscraper cutouts a red-eyed King Kong perched atop one and even a cozy copy of decorated Jordan Marsh And inside the make-believe restaurant was a party hosted by store president William Ruben honoring New Yorkers Earl Blackwell and Eugenia Sheppard authors of Clear Crystal the Charles Gil-letts he president of the New York Convention and Visitors Bureau Inc and syndicated columnist-TV figure Hy Gardner all sporting Big Apple lapel emblems Virginia Gillett is a distinguished painter Her husband confided that he popularized the Big Apple nickname for New York but credits the late Damon Runyon with being the originator Tee-niney Eugenia wore a natural color Adolfo knit twopiece with bow-tied blouse of the same color She and Earl who skim the cream off the Jet Set life are also plainly thrilled at being first-time novelists Mary Wells Lawrence the noted advertising exec for a Valentine gave them a white Rolls-Royce with chauffeur for one week while the two were scrambling around New York to autograph parties television interviews etc Put that on your gift ideas list for Christmas Not to be outdone Barry College tonight launches a series of dinner parties for 50 to 60 guests with trustees and spouses and the president Sister Tri-nita Flood doing the honors Getting the crowd together for the first getting-to-know-you event in the Red Room of Thompson Hall are Gablesites Mary and Bruce Reinertson Mike and Tish Dwayne and Inez Andreas Bea and Mike Garner Betty and Joe Fleming Frank and Dottie Crippen Betty and Frank are new trustees Among the expected guests are racing stabl-eowner Donna Ross Indian Creek Islanders Jan and Mike Cowles the Eli Timoners the Frank Mackles III the Poncet Davises John and Maggie MacDonald she a former Junior League president In the Reinertsons' group will be John and Mary Lou Saxon of Miami Shores who are their summer neighbors at Grandfather Mountain (N C) Golf CC Opera Is Fun the theme of the Young Patronesses Of the Opera annual dinner party Friday at John and JoLe home in Gables Estates Prizefights are fun too according to Julie and Murray Gaby she a chairman of the YPO party The Gabys were in New York to see boxing matches at Madison Square Garden when the big blizzard struck The Plaza Hotel is not a bad place to be snowbound for eight days so the Gabys bought rubber boots slogged over to Central Park and carried on as expect Miamians to do Joan (Mrs Albert) Morrison is the Friday co-chairman YPO members prepare their own party food so 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