Word: block
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Saturday's diamond melee is the feature event of the Student Association's Block Party where the businessmen will be seeking to avenge a 5-4 tennis defeat at the hands of the invaders...
...become one of the most densely peopled places in the western world. Social workers have often found as many as 20 men, women & children living in a single four-room flat. Beds are used in shifts. By day, the area's streets teem with children. In almost every block there is a sidewalk gambling game. By night, the streets crawl with idlers and men & women back from jobs as dishwashers, laundry helpers, needle-workers. The average wage for Spanish Harlem: about $30 a week...
...Author. Philip Toynbee, 31, son of famed British Historian Arnold Toynbee and grandson of Oxford's Professor Gilbert Murray, is no chip off the old block. At 17 he ran away from school at Rugby, later became a Communist, was beaten up by Oswald Mosley's Black Shirts at a fascist meeting. He got into Oxford with difficulty and became the first Communist president of the Union (Oxonian debating society). He later rejected Communism, joined the army as a Welsh Guardsman in 1940, was "commissioned as an intelligence officer and wound up in the Ministry of Economic Warfare...
...often the work of many days and many men. "It doesn't have to be news today for us to think it's news," says Executive Editor William Kerby. "We deal in situations." The dealing is done six days a week at 44 Broad Street, in a block-long newsroom with chartreuse curtains and a soundproofed ceiling. As an extra service, the Journal prints tried & true jokes in a "Pepper & Salt" humor column, suggests that readers retell them at lunch "or to clear the air at a tough conference...
...undertaker had the last word with WQQW. "The station for intelligent listeners," like many another good idea in radio, died young; after losing money steadily during the station's six months of operation, WQQW's 125 owners (editors, doctors, housewives, etc.) put their property on the block...