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...Only Way. John Joseph Broderick came by his talents naturally enough. He grew up in Manhattan's East 20s, the Gashouse district, and while many of his neighbors were learning how to be thugs, Johnny, fresh from parochial school, was driving a brick truck at the age of twelve. A stint in the World War I Navy and a few months as a fireman convinced him that he was not cut out for such tame endeavors. The pug-faced Irishman joined the cops in 1923. "Gimme a gangster, give him a gun, and leave the rest...
...changed. Today Valladolid is a thriving, springing city, ringed with factories. Some 70 companies are moving into town, bringing an investment of $75 million and 8,200 new jobs. Great clusters of new brick apartments have risen from abandoned lots. The city's 14th century university has even started a new department: cinematography. "It's astounding that it could all have happened so fast," marvels local Development Boss Antonio Narro de Povar. "We're beginning to look like a little Madrid...
Girls already off-campus almost unanimously plan to stay where they are or will try to move to private apartments if they can. "I don't think a lot of people will go rushing back to the brick dorms. I know I won't," said an off-campus sophomore. Another groaned, "The college may be losing money, but I'd lose my sanity back in a dorm...
Those who are still living in the brick dorms, however, seem to have lost their incentive to move off-campus. "I just can't see hiking through the snow to breakfast," one junior commented...
Netsch used the cold, durable materials of the city-concrete, granite, hard-surfaced brick-to build his university. Mindful that 28,500 students will soon swarm its halls, he barred automobiles from the campus in favor of elevated pedestrian expressways that connect the actual city outside with the academic core of the college. The crisp, die-straight expressways are bordered by stone bollards and giant chains. From the four points of the compass, these airborne paths lead to a 300-ft. by 450-ft. elevated slab, a great, raised court that has become the students' principal rendezvous...