Word: bronx
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...eastern-front position called Luke the Gook's Castle, were later beaten off. Both attacks served merely as harassments, but they helped to make the winter nights ugly for U.N. troops. Shivering in three-above-zero cold on the Imjin sector, an 18-year-old soldier from The Bronx said: "It's like any other night-just too damned long." Probably no soldiers on earth really prefer fighting at night, but the Chinese and North Koreans have good and obvious reasons for avoiding daylight assaults. The U.N. artillery, close air support and air observation function best...
...leader of the pirates, said the prosecution, was one Elliot Burt Forrest, 29, Bronx-born operator of a Tangier nightclub and now a fugitive from justice. But the brains behind the exploit was Nylon Sid, who was lurking in Marseille waiting to dispose of the loot when the Esme's crew was captured. Spanish cops nabbed Nylon Sid when he skipped to Madrid; last week he faced trial before a U.S. consular court in the internationalized port of Tangier...
...state chairman, the central committee chose Richard H. Balch (pronounced bawltch) a wealthy and genial fishing-tackle manufacturer from Utica. Behind Balch was the Fair Deal wing of the party, led by ailing Bronx Boss Ed Flynn, Mutual Security Director W. Averell Harriman and Representative Franklin Delano Roosevelt Jr. Behind the loser -one William H. Morgan of Cortland-was the conservative wing, led by former National Chairman and Postmaster General (1933-40) James A. Farley. After his election, Balch promptly demonstrated that his organization is still seriously divided: he hinted broadly that he didn't even consider Old Headmaster...
...Rescue. Minutes after the storm, Johannesburg's Bronx-born mayor, 45-year-old Hymie Miller, sounded an appeal for help. Ambulances and double-decker city buses raced down the veld roads carrying white doctors and nurses; enough shoes, clothing and blankets poured in to supply twice the number of homeless. When Mayor Miller appealed for emergency blood donors, thousands of Johannesburgers streamed out of movie theaters and cocktail lounges to line up, some all night long, at the blood-bank centers...
...York Daily News, which covers sexy, sensational stories with a flair that no other tabloid can match, last week broke a story that surprised even hardened News readers. Splashed across Page One was a banner headline: EX-G.I. BECOMES BLONDE BEAUTY. Said the story: "A Bronx youth, who served two years in the Army during the war and was honorably discharged, has been transformed by the wizardry of medical science into a beautiful woman." Under the banner were pictures of George W. Jorgensen, 26, the George who "is no more," and Christine, "the new woman" he became after "five...