Word: 42nd
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...legal age, rigidly enforced in most, though not all, bars--so let's start with the movies. The good old dependables are the Kenmore, the Exeter (usually British imports), the Telepix in Boston, and the Brattle in Cambridge. For the sex-and-sadism spectaculars, amble down Washington St., the 42nd St. of Boston and more garish than anything along Broadway. There you can identify with the teen-age werewolves on the Cinemascope screens...
According to the New York Times, the librarians at 42nd Street found over seven million volumes at last count. The College library's annual report of last June listed 6,697,111 books and pamphlets...
...cockfighting today is a tawdry, fugitive affair of back alleys and darkened cellars. But in the bigtime environs of the Orlando (Fla.) Game Club, cockfighting is a perfectly legal "sport" whose devotees are proud of its bloody heritage. Last week, as the Game Club staged its 42nd annual international tournament, a trade magazine called Grit and Steel was moved to declare that the Orlando is "the oldest and most steeped in tradition" of all U.S. cockfighting events...
Sipping coffee and reading the business section of the Times in an Automat at 42nd Street and Fifth Avenue, she came upon an ad announcing the opening of a new investment-counseling firm, Glass & Krey, just up the street. Sylvia made the trip over in such a hurry that her Phi Beta Kappa key was still swinging like a pendulum on her bosom when she arrived at the desk of Arthur William Glass. The sight of the pendant transfixed him. "I've always wanted to hire someone with one of those," he murmured before Sylvia could open her mouth...
Bowling, which has been regarded by big-city sophisticates as a small-town or suburban sport, invaded Manhattan last week with a bang. The Grand Central Bowl Co. announced it will build a $3,000,000 bowling center at Grand Central Terminal in the airspace over the 42nd Street waiting room...