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Free Beer. The borough of Brooklyn (pop. 2,848,000) erupted with joy over their beloved Dodgers' first triumph. A blizzard of paper and ticker tape fluttered from office buildings. Barkeepers served beer on the house, and lunchroom operators handed out free hot dogs. Snake-dancing and parades went on all night. Life was so complete for one Brooklyn rooter that he tried to end it with a suicide leap off Brooklyn Bridge...
...Herman's earliest memories is playing hide and seek among the machines. The Wouk family was "restless, like most New Yorkers," and while Herman was still a child, made four moves, from one canyonlike apartment house to another, all within what Wouk calls "that romantic, and much overcriticized borough," The Bronx...
...saying Mr. De Sapio was the only Tammany leader he could sit down with since Mr. Murphy, and not have to talk out of the side of his mouth.'' Flynn advised De Sapio, brought him along, and was delighted to see him made leader of Manhattan, the borough just south of Flynn's Bronx...
...Brooklyn ball fans grew up with the Daffiness Boys and their bonehead base running of the '20s. They remember a rooter who turned murderer with rage over a loss to the Giants, a minister praying vainly for victory (1946-the Cardinals won the pennant) on the steps of Borough Hall, Catcher Mickey Owen dropping a third strike and losing a championship. With the inevitability of Greek tragedy, the beloved Bums were often contenders, sometimes won pennants and never won a World Series...
...morning last week three men accosted a young New York bank clerk as he was leaving his home in New York City's borough of Queens. They ushered him into his Ford at gunpoint and drove with him the 14 blocks to his office, a branch of the Bank of the Manhattan Co. (which had just merged with Chase National to become the nation's second largest bank). They waited on the sidewalk outside. When the manager arrived he was stopped, too. "This isn't funny," he snapped. One of the bandits, flashing a submachine gun, replied...