Word: brooklyn
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This week, the battle-scarred Missouri retired in defeat to the Navy Yard in Brooklyn, for repairs. But one member of the crew was left behind. He had come down with the mumps...
...lectured New York housewives on the best way to cook a big turkey in a small oven: "The stern of the turkey, you know, the rear end-they call it the rudder here-is cut off about one inch." Later, he confided to a gathering at a Brooklyn clinic that he dislikes horse doctors because "a horse doctor pulled my first baby tooth." Wednesday he fired a few practice shots at Candidate O'Dwyer to sharpen his eye for his shooting bee with Governor Dewey on Manhattan's station...
...lifted and a sharp autumn wind whistled past the skyscrapers, quickening the pulse of the city. In the Navy Yard in Brooklyn lay the spanking new carrier Franklin D. Roosevelt, ready for a presidential commissioning. Across Manhattan, in the brackish waters of the Hudson, an impressive fraction of the U.S. fleet rode at anchor, ready for a presidential review. There would be a parade for Harry Truman up Fifth Avenue, past the flags and the glittering shop windows. He would make a speech before hundreds of thousands on an open meadow in Central Park...
...Bradford Young, then at Brooklyn's Holy Trinity Church (Episcopal), first tried this experiment on Lincoln's Birthday in 1925. He took a group of his young parishioners across the river to Harlem to celebrate the day with the kids of St. Philip's. It worked so well that after Clergyman Young got a new parish in Manchester, he invited the Harlem pastor, the Rev. Shelton Hale Bishop, up to preach. Mr. Bishop had heard of the Harlem exchange trips of Vermont's Rev. A. Ritchie Low (TIME, Aug. 28, 1944), suggested that New Hampshire...
...King Faustin II (1925-29) of the 10,000 voodoo-practicing natives living on the island of La Gonâve (near Haiti), where he was stationed as a one-man police force (his subjects gravely saluted him: "Bon soi, roi!"-TIME, April 6, 1931); after long illness; in Brooklyn...