Word: brooklyn
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Brooklyn 7, Pittsburgh...
...Goes My Love (Skirball-Manning, Universal), based on Hiram Percy Maxim's reminiscences of his inventor parent (A Genius in the Family), is a sort of utility-grade Life with Father, told chiefly in terms of what it does to Mother. Time & place: Brooklyn, in its mansard-capped prime. Since Son Percy (Bobby Driscoll) is a regular little heller and Father (Don Ameche) a regular social booby trap, life is anything but simple for Mother (Myrna Loy). Finally one of Percy's pranks almost causes her to lose her second baby. But by dint of widespread praying...
...test case was an ex-serviceman and welder in Brooklyn, Abraham Fishgold. He had been laid off while nonveterans went on working (TIME, June 18, 1945). Fishgold won his superseniority suit for $86.40 damages in a lower court. But Fishgold's union carried the fight to the Supreme Court. Fishgold, no longer welding, is selling trinkets in Harlem...
Harper is advertising 44-year-old Edward McSorley's first novel as another Tree Grows in Brooklyn. The publisher is being very optimistic about it. McSorley's kind of people are like Betty Smith's, but perhaps only Betty Smith can make a Tree...