Word: brooklyn
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Tree Grows in Brooklyn (James Dunn, Peggy Ann Garner, Dorothy McGuire; TIME...
...earlier mistakes made by the WACs. The WACs had used a publicity man's appeal to get results. Many a glamor girl got in a WAC recruiting line just for the gag. The WAVES hewed to a line that was dignified and stern. On one occasion a Brooklyn reporter heckled Miss Mac for a story on WAVE underwear. What was going to be regulation lingerie? Miss Mac set her teeth; the Navy did not care what the WAVES wore under their uniform. The reporter finally gave up. There was no story on WAVE underwear...
Died. Tess Slesinger (rhymes with messenger), 39, mordantly witty littérateur, whose early, bright promise as an author (The Unpossessed) faded when she became a well-paid cinemadapter (The Good Earth, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn); after long illness; in Hollywood...
...Tree Grows in Brooklyn (James Dunn, Peggy Ann Garner, Dorothy McGuire; TIME...
There are only two settings in Lower than Angels. One is Brooklyn, where Marvin lived until he was ten, in a railroad flat in Grandma Lang's home. It was full of beaded curtains, canaries, chairs with claw feet and red leather seats, gaslights, knickknacks, onyx clocks and vases filled with cattails. From an upstairs window Marvin could look down upon flower gardens and a spider's web of clotheslines forever hung with grey underwear. His father, who then had charge of the hardware section of Bohan's department store, was a Republican with firm convictions about...