Word: brooklyn
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...quiet night in all precincts. Patrolman Francis De Feis shot at a fur thief in front of Brooklyn's Paramount, accidentally killed an elderly woman waiting for a trolley (and the United Nations never stirred). Longshoreman Willie May was ambushed and shot dead through the window of the men's room in the Four Leaf saloon on Henry Street (and the Moscow press did not even toss an adjective). Three liquor stores were held up, involving a total theft of $713 and one gold watch (the U.S. State Department did not so much as lift an eyebrow...
Foremost of the local stations carrying the broadcast is the Herald-Traveler's WHDH, operating at 850 kilocycles. In the New York City area, WLIB in Brooklyn will feature the game, according to William J. Bingham '16, director of Physical Education and Athletics. New Haven's WNHC and the Yale Network will keep stay-at-home Bulldog enthusiasts well-informed of the struggle with a play-by-play description of this latest in a venerable series of Harvard-Yale football battles...
Egged On. In Brooklyn, Magistrate Henry Soffer took up the case of four men who had smashed 3,600 eggs in a fight, learned that the arresting officer's name was Eggolt, said brightly: "This is certainly a scrambled mess." Cracked the defense attorney: "That's no yolk...
Chairman of American-Soviet Friendship is Rev. William Howard Melish, 36-year-old associate rector of the Protestant Episcopal Church of the Holy Trinity of Brooklyn. The Rev. Mr. Melish makes no bones about admiring the not-so-holy trinity of Marx, Lenin & Stalin. He wrote in the Communist New Masses that he was "impressed by the substantial truth of Marxist methods of social and economic analysis." He is a supporter of Manhattan's Jefferson School of Social Science, a Communist incubator. In the latest Reporter, the Council's four-page bimonthly which Rev. Mr. Melish edits...
Down Furs. Luxury goods were hardest hit. Sales of fur coats were down; so were fur prices. Brooklyn's Abraham & Straus announced a one-third reduction in the price of $113,170 worth of "truly magnificent fur coats...