Word: 44th
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...drunk gang" (unimportant projects--usually wrecking) and pours out his life story one night in a bar. He is someone who was created by ironworking--it defines him--and when he recurs throughout the book he is powerful. But it leads Cherry nowhere: when Timmy falls off the 44th floor--just as he is kicking booze and becoming a competent ironworker again--Cherry can only start apologetically to philosophize about What Is An Accident, then give a kind of literary "what the hell." But you know he cares about the fear--they all do. Yet every time he starts...
...days," Brennan recalls, "I would get up at 6 a.m. no matter what. Now you can't walk around at 6. At 7 it's safe. But you can see the 6 a.m. people still up." She lives alone in a midtown hotel on West 44th Street-"just opposite the Algonquin" and only a few steps away from The New Yorker -and she has a canny, survivor's eye for a bargain. "The coffee at Bickford's is only 16?," she will say, "but they rob you at Childs." She broods on the differences between Woolworth...
...most part, the surveillance of Times Square is routine, as the cops try to keep borderline crime under control. The police log on one evening read, in part: "N/W corner 44th & B'way-camera picked up crowd and man dressed in black clothing. Upon investigation revealed minister preaching. Subject was advised of the procedure to follow in order to conduct such gathering ... Observed a derelict intoxicated -sleeping at island at B'way & 44th St. Disposition: Awakened subject & sent...
...charter booking comes in the wake of an unsettled TWA air strike which enters its 44th day today. TWA had promised fuel allocations for HSA's charter flights to California but was unable to provide planes because of the unresolved air attendants' strike...
...Harvard professor was robbed at gunpoint last week in front of Kirkland House. The robbery was the 44th "major crime" at Harvard to be reported to the University Police since January...