Word: brooklyn
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...blocks north of U.N. and one block from the constant rumble of First Avenue trucks is Manhattan's swank, placid Beekman Place, rimming a bluff over the East River, with a view from Brooklyn to The Bronx. John D. Rockefeller III has an apartment at No. 1. A block away lives Columnist-Entrepreneur Billy Rose, with his wife, Eleanor Holm, Actress Katherine Cornell lives...
Kluss, a resident of Boston, was granted a war service scholarship from the State of Iowa. Anderson, of Brooklyn, New York, a graduate of Harverford, and Worland, of Aurora, Ilinois, a graduate of Coigate, were also selected for war service scholarships from their respective states...
Death, which lurks in every corner of a big metropolis, struck with unusual suddenness in New York City last week: ¶Shy Josephine Marra, 29, was embarrassed by the awful pain in her abdomen. She had no idea what caused it. She had just been walking along Brooklyn's Greene Avenue, had doubled up, and then had fallen. Flustered, she allowed a passer-by to help her into a small, private hospital. But the doctor was about to perform an operation on another patient, and asked her to wait. She left, walked seven blocks to her home. The puzzling...
Billie Dawn is apt to endure as the theater's best Dumb Broad. Garson Kanin did it in spite of her Brooklyn accent...
...Filene's Sons Co., Brooklyn's Abraham & Strauss, Inc. and Lazarus' own family enterprises, Columbus' F. & R. Lazarus & Co. (including its wholly owned subsidiary, Cincinnati's John Shillito Co.), Manhattan's Bloomingdale Bros...