Word: bronx
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hundred-year-old lizards, named Komodo Dragons will be shipped to the Bronx Zoo. They are descendants of the Australian Dinosaur family and will give special performances (goat-eating, etc.) for the Press every Saturday for the next three weeks. CRIMSON editors have been invited and thus will not publish on those days...
...that here will be a cash or stock dividend this year for stockholders, who have received no dividends since 1931. One of the innovations that McGinnis hopes will boost revenues was unveiled last week as 2,500 New England children (and Mcinnis himself) rode a special train to The Bronx zoo (see cut). But while profits were up, there was plenty of evidence that service, notably for commuters, was down. More and more commuters from Westchester County and Connecticut were finding their
Sivard was raised in The Bronx and Long Island, trained as a commercial illustrator. He has worked for magazines and advertising agencies, is now a consultant with the U.S. Information Agency in Washington. A lean and sober-seeming man, he views the world through thick, tortoise-shell spectacles and finds it full of pleasant humor. If his spectacles have a rosy tinge, so do his canvases, which sparkle with the refreshing tingle of a spring day in Paris...
...even heartache is easier to take than a Saturday night at home in The Bronx. After a while, Marty and his pal Angie (Joe Mantell) ankle over to the Stardust Ballroom to see what's around. "Hey, there's a nice-lookin' short one f'ya," Angie says. Marty asks her for a dance. She says she doesn't feel like it just now, thank you. Marty turns away pale: that's enough of that for one night...
...through this almost too clever script, which he adapted from his own television play. Many of his coins go down the drain and others are too bright and shiny for belief; but at his best this writer, who was born and raised in a Jewish-Italian part of The Bronx, can find the vernacular truth and beauty in ordinary lives and feelings. And he can say things about his people that he could never get away with if he were not a member of the family...