Word: bronx
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When his parents went out one evening last week, leaving him alone in the family's apartment in The Bronx, 23-year-old Stanley Gordon found himself momentarily at loose ends. But Stanley, a radio bug, and an interested participant in the Atomic Age, soon found something to do. He got out his tools and hooked up a microphone, a four-watt amplifier and an eight-inch loudspeaker. Then, seized with the kind of dreamy thirst for power which causes humans to throw matches into gas tanks or shoot fat women with BB guns, he leaned over and began...
Seven Crimson cross-country runners will face some of the stiffest competition in the East at 3 p.m. this afternoon when they race in the Heptagonals at Van Cortlandt Park in the Bronx, New York. Ten colleges will compete in the annual meet...
...which includes Bobby Clark, Eddie Cantor, Martin & Lewis, Bob Hope. His fans noted that the old, surefire Allen formula, modified for TV and bolstered with a $60,000 budget, was still serviceable. Transformed into puppets for the camera, the inhabitants of Allen's Alley talked in their best Bronx, New England, and deep South accents...
Overnight, Democrats were plunged into deepest gloom. Meeting in Rochester's Hotel Seneca last week, convention delegates glumly went through the motions of approving the ticket their bosses had chosen for them. Their nominee for governor was to be Representative Walter Lynch, an able but colorless six-term Bronx Congressman with an undeviating New and Fair Deal record. Facing the press, State Chairman Paul Fitzpatrick bravely discussed his qualifications...
...this point it seemed as if O'Dwyer was bent on making enemies damaging to the party and vanishing from public life. But things didn't work out that way at all. A few weeks ago Ed Flynn, the cagey, power-minded Democratic boss of The Bronx, asked himself a very interesting question: "What if O'Dwyer resigned...