Word: brooklyn
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Long established, conservative, is the Manhattan brokerage house of F. B. Keech & Co., No. 52 Broadway. Newly opened and modernistic, however, is the Brooklyn office of this same concern. Designed by Mrs. H. Lawrence Carpenter, wife of Brooklyn Office Manager H. L. Carpenter, the Keech & Co. suite in the Williamsburg Savings Bank Building tower is fitted up like the interior of a yacht. Thus ships' bells chime out the hours, and sunlight enters not through windows but through portholes. The office has also a special room for women-traders...
...Jury Members were: California's Congresswoman Florence Prag Kahn, Missouri's onetime (1911-29) Senator James A Reed; Rt Rev. Monsignor John L. Belford of Brooklyn; Rear Admiral Gary Travers Grayson, onetime (1913-21) White House physician; Rabbi Nathan Krass of Manhattan; Archdeacon Joseph Henry Dodshoti of Ohio, Episcopal clergyman; Pennsylvania's Congressman James Montgomery Beck...
Many an amateur in the New York district conducted private displays for the benefit of the convention delegates last week. Notable among these was Dr. Samuel Cox Hooker of Brooklyn who first produced his Impossibilities and Miltiades III in 1918. At that time he astonished and mystified some of the world's leading magicians. Not until this spring did Dr. Hooker give another demonstration. Eleven years had passed for discussion and theorizing, yet the brotherhood of magicians still found Brother Hooker's thaumaturgy inexplicable...
...York City, Frank ("Daredevil Jack") Latkowsk' did a Jackknife dive from Brooklyn Bridge into the East River (138 ft.). He sprained his thumb...
...That the most famed Brooklyn Bridge jump ever occurred (Steve Brodie, 1886) cannot be proved. But several others jumped and lived...