Word: 52nd
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...JONES 649 S. 52nd Street Philadelphia...
Forbidden Fruit. In 1927, Belle landed in Manhattan-"fifty-two and fat." There was only $2 in her purse, but there was plenty of gin in the old girl yet. Within six months she opened the first of her three speakeasies, in a mansion on East 52nd Street-it was not a saloon, she insisted, but a salon. For entertainment Belle featured such "continental bizarrie as will be cayenne to the jaded mental tongue." For refreshment she offered the usual bootleg booze, champagne (at $30 a bottle) for the discriminating. One night she dared to charge Al Capone...
...chorus line is the spice of the show ("People enjoy talking to them"). So last month Minsky* took off on a recruiting trip to Europe, returned last week with a report that was part showbusinesslike, part sociological. Said he: "Europe is one big striptease. Hamburg looks like 52nd Street in the wild days; Paris is one strip joint after another...
...spacious, air -conditioned Des Moines Veterans Auditorium was jammed with 3,000 convention delegates and 5,000 visitors last week, but the burnished-copper ashtrays stayed empty. The assembled 8,000 were American Baptists (Northern), on hand for their 52nd annual convention and, as one official explained: "Some Baptists smoke, but never when they gather together like this...
...junior year in Chappaqua's Horace Greeley High School, when, during a siege of measles, he dialed in Armstrong, Hines and Henderson on his bedside radio. At Columbia University, Gleason was news editor for the Spectator, often nursed a beer all night long in the jazz joints on 52nd Street. With all that jazz, Gleason finally collapsed, quit college in his senior year. Cracks he: "I'm not copping a plea, but I did get a throat infection, and that cooled...