Word: bronx
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...With her lawyer beside her, a study in distress, Mrs. Berke said that she was not a Communist last Sept. 15, but refused to say if she had been one Sept. 13. McCarthy told her that if she is fired from her position as a school clerk in The Bronx, she "might apply for a job over at Harvard-there seems to be a privileged sanctuary over there for Fifth Amendment cases...
...would have none of it. After he graduated from New York University as a chemistry major last June, she plagued him to get a job "like other boys." Instead, Harlow-a tall, thin, languid youth with cropped red hair and heavy hornrimmed glasses-lounged about the family's Bronx apartment, owlishly reading verse. Eying him, his mother bawled the word: "Fairy...
...Harlow's life was improved. He bought a $4,000 Oldsmobile, made a deposit on an $18,000 Rolls-Royce, which he proposed to pick up later in London. He read poetry, ate well, and enjoyed the company of kindred spirits. His existence was not completely smooth: two Bronx detectives spent weeks tailing him, and on one occasion had the temerity to ask him if he had killed his parents. He replied that he was a gentleman; otherwise he would tell them what he thought of such a "dastardly" suggestion...
...successful fund-raiser in New York's Westchester County reckoned that he and his family would realize $75,000 this year for operating half a dozen smalltime charities. Another admitted he had posed as a priest and a policeman in telephone soliciting. In The Bronx, six "nuns" in rented habits and their self-styled "bishop" were arrested for rooking the public in door-to-door campaigns on behalf of themselves. A commonplace practice is to inundate the mails with cheap ballpoint pens (the D.A.V. mailed 32 million in one year), punch cards, nail files, copies of the Lord...
Some parents berate the boy more than themselves. Last week, when Harlow Fraden was indicted for the cocktail murder of his parents in The Bronx (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS), he was quoted as saying that he had killed them because "his mother called him a 'fairy...