Word: bronx
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...were packed into 10,742 crates (made in a specially built sawmill) and sent 21 miles (on a specially built railroad) to a seaport, where freighters carried them to New York. Somehow Hearst never got around to playing with his new $500,000 building blocks. They sat in a Bronx warehouse until after his death last year, then were sold (for about $60,000) to a group of New York and Cincinnati businessmen. Last week the new owners had glad news: the work of fitting the jig-stone puzzle is under way at North Miami Beach, Fla., and the monastery...
...York, the Democrats, confused and leaderless since Bronx Boss Ed Flynn became ill last year, still have not fixed on a candidate to oppose able Republican Senator Irving M. Ives. Since Averell Harriman has so far refused to accept the nomination, party leaders may have to fall back on Manhattan Borough President Robert Wagner Jr., son of the author of the Wagner Labor Relations Act. In that case, the Republicans would have an advantage, but the Democrats may dump Wagner in favor of Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr. There is an argument among Democrats over whether Junior's name balances...
...called on one John Green, a young Negro he had known in prison, "bought" a .22 pistol from him for $20, and invited Green along because he had "a good job setup in The Bronx." On the way, they prowled a dark Greenwich Village street, stuck up a frightened couple and stole $12. But by 12:30, as he led Green aimlessly around The Bronx, it became embarrassingly evident that he hadn't really planned a big robbery...
Johnny is a husky youth of 20, but he was holding his mother's hand as they rode the ferry last week from The Bronx to North Brother Island in the East River. For Johnny, like most of the first half-dozen young addicts admitted to New York City's Riverside Hospital, was a mama's boy. From an underprivileged Harlem family, Johnny had taken to dope largely to prove that he was no sissy...
Some of the best modern writers have been self-conscious artists, working for the admiration of small followings and often requiring cabalistic analysis before they could be fully understood. Not, however, Sholom Aleichem, the Ukraine-born Yiddish humorist who died in The Bronx 36 years ago. Sholom Aleichem (real name: Solomon Rabinowitz) was a genuine folk artist. Between himself and his Yiddish public throughout the world there was an instinctive understanding; they could grasp his twists of idiom, his slightest reference to a Torah phrase or a ghetto custom...