Summer at Tiffany
At the age of 82, Hart, a professional cellist, recalls 1945, when she  and her best friend, Marty, students at the University of Iowa, spent the  summer in Manhattan, in this pleasant but slight memoir. Failing to obtain work  at Lord & Taylor, the pair, self-described as long-limbed, blue-eyed  blondes, were hired at Tiffany's—the first female floor sales pages,  delivering packages to the repair and shipping department, for $20 a week. Hart  details their stringent budget ("1. Two nickels for subway. 2. Sandwich at the  Automat: 15 cents") and describes, somewhat breathlessly, what a thrill it was  to see such luminaries as Marlene Dietrich and Judy Garland shop at the fabled  store. Her romance with a midshipman, the combat death of her cousin, the news  of the dropping of the first atomic bomb and a vivid account of the celebration  in Times Square after Japan's surrender convey a sense of the WWII era, but  without adding much illumination. She does, however, evoke New York City as  seen through the eyes of two innocent smalltown girls. 16 pages of b&w  photos and illus.(Apr.)Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.