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Cashmore, a Brooklyn-born Episcopalian, peddled newspapers as a boy to stretch the finances of his widowed mother, later studied law at night, and got into politics by running for the state assembly. ("You keep thinking you've met him before," said one reporter, "and you have-in every political machine in the U.S., and every hour on the hour in Washington.") He graduated to alderman, then borough president, has never been beaten in 17 elections-all confined to Brooklyn...
...Brooklyn-born Napoleon, 51, thinks of his return as a kind of mission. Somewhere, he feels, jazzmen have gotten off the track, both the latter-day Dixielanders and the bopsters, who seldom let you hear the tune. "These kids, now, all on a 'progressive' kick, don't know what they're listening to because they don't know where it came from." Phil Napoleon is doing what he can to set things straight by taking the young crowd back to first principles: "This music we're playing...
Married. Roberta Peters, 21, Bronx-born Metropolitan Opera soprano; and Robert Merrill, 33, Brooklyn-born Met baritone; in Manhattan...
...waiter didn't know it, but he was indulging in an understatement. In her late 40s, Brooklyn-born Tillie Lewis likes to say she is the world's tomato queen and one of the nation's largest independent canners of fruits & vegetables. She began her Manhattan holiday last week as the 1951 packing season ended. At its close, her Flotill Products, Inc. had turned out 150 million cans, including some 75 million cans of tomatoes and tomato products. This year, she estimates she will net some $1,300,000 after taxes, on $20 million in sales...
...rise & fall of an 18th Century man about London. He first saw the paintings four years ago, had an immediate "theatrical reaction." Moreover, he found the paintings full of "a morality I respect." Stravinsky decided to translate Hogarth into opera. He got distinguished help from Poet W.H. Auden and Brooklyn-born Chester Kallman, who worked up an English libretto with a Faustian theme; Poet T.S. Eliot lent a hand with the final polishing...