Word: bronx
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...violation (with a blonde on a Caribbean cruise). He hired the best available legal talent, e.g., Connecticut's late Senator Brien McMahon, and paid double fees when he was acquitted. Sometimes, his friendship proved embarrassing: in 1943 the nomination of Ed Flynn, the late Democratic boss of the Bronx, to be Minister to Australia, was withdrawn after his legal associations with Rubinstein were revealed in the Senate...
Fish & Sanctity. The first church that young Dr. Coffin took over (he was fresh out of Manhattan's Union Theological Seminary) was near a Bronx fish market; in time, "the odor of sanctity overcame the odor of fish." Later, he moved to the Madison Avenue Presbyterian Church. When he found that the church maintained a chapel for poorer parishioners who could not afford to rent pews in the church proper, Dr. Coffin closed the chapel, abolished the pew rents and merged the two congregations. He often took a portable organ to tenement districts to hold services for workers...
...John Kurtzke and Louis Berlin jumped to no conclusions when a multiple sclerosis patient, treated with isoniazid for bed sores, began to speak so that they could again understand him. Instead, they tested isoniazid, the TB wonder drug, on 30 patients at the Veterans Administration Hospital in the Bronx. Three received no benefit, but 27 improved, and by a wider margin than previous M.S. patients who had been given other treatments. Most encouraging was the fact that four patients improved when they were given the drug and relapsed when it was stopped, then improved again when it was resumed. Eight...
Born. To Teresa Brewer, 23, tiny, leather-lunged jukebox songstress (Music! Music! Music!; Till I Waltz Again with You), and Bill Monahan, 27, music publisher: a third daughter, third child; in The Bronx. Name: Megan Colleen. Weight...
...production, which played, at the Barbizon Theatre, was picketed by members of the AFL Musicians' Union and the Stage Employees' Union. A two-night stand last year in Bronx school auditorium did not bring pickets, but failed to fill the house...