Word: bronx
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hippos have waddled along Happy's slippery path into anonymity. In New York, at the Bronx Zoo, an exotic quartet of two pygmy hippos and a young hippo couple (Peter II and Phoebe) have kept the local journals happy. In the St. Louis Zoo, Harry, the resident hippopotamus, became famous overnight last summer for his aristocratic distemper. It all started when the Zoo decided it would repaint the cages. The work went smoothly until the painters began work on Harry's cage. A nonconformist, Harry never liked crowds, and he didn't like the painters, the paint, or the whole...
...match was so one-sided that the stadium rocked to the shrill and scornful sound of the "Moscow Whistle," a nerveracking Eastern echo of The Bronx cheer. English sportswriters found it all terribly embarrassing. "The Russians," said Desmond Hackett of the Daily Express, "are not easily amused. But before battered Arsenal had crawled out of the floodlit stadium tonight, 75,000 Russians were laughing like kids at a pantomime . . . The crowd were tossing peaked caps and laughing fit to bust...
...hands did well enough. Balloon-shaped Jackie Gleason (Sat. 8 p.m., CBS) growled, grinned and blustered his way through a refreshingly lively one-hour situation comedy. Red Buttons (three Fridays a month, 8 p.m., NBC) returned with a hatful of new routines and old Bronx-accented characterizations. Old Trouper Jimmy Durante (Sat. 9:30 p.m., NBC) was as agile as ever. Groucho Marx was again quizmaster on You Bet Your Life (Thurs. 8 p.m., NBC) and insulting his guests while paying them money...
...Rusi went too, yelling such things as: "You're no pilgrims; you're Communist propagandists! You serve the Moscow atheists!" In Mecca (pop. 90,000) there are some 13,000 Moslem refugees from Russia, so Hamid and Rusi soon had plenty of help. Ripe tomatoes and Mohammedan Bronx cheers greeted the harassed Reds in Mecca's streets, and celebrities whom the Communists wanted to meet, among them Saudi Arabia's King Saud, refused to receive them. Hamid and Rusi were happy hadjis...
...Buckley are little known outside New York City, but they are big men in the rooms where New York Democratic decisions are made. De Sapio, Democratic national committeeman and the boss of Tammany Hall, will control at least 212 votes in the convention. U.S. Representative Buckley, boss of The Bronx, will walk in with 108. Some time before the convention begins on September 21, De Sapio and Buckley will make up their minds and pass along the word. Then the race will be over...