Word: brooklyn
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...always wanted most of all to write plays," confessed Novelist Betty Smith (A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, Tomorrow Will Be Better) to an interviewer for Vogue, "but I've never been able to get on Broadway. The novel is like a good, steady provider ... the kind of fellow you can marry, who is ready to settle down . . . while the theater-that's the handsome guy who's a lot of fun, but you'd be a fool to marry...
...heart, is confronted with the request: 'Will you now give us seventy-five words on what you've just said?' " ¶ Georgia O'Keeffe spent only sev en well-chosen words in describing her latest painting - a starkly splen did, semi-abstract rendering of the Brooklyn Bridge (see cut) : "This is the Brooklyn Bridge...
Atlanta 10, Brooklyn...
Daniel B. Ray '49 of Brooklyn, New York won the Henry Russell Shaw Fellowship, which was created to enable a graduate who showed a promise of success in a professional or business career to travel in Europe...
...taken "Buddy" Kaye a long time to come to that summary. He started grinding out lyrics soon after he graduated from Brooklyn's James Madison High School, but in his first ten years at it he netted only pretzel money from his 150 songs. He lived by playing the saxophone in Chinese restaurants and beer parlors. In 1945, after he had peddled and pushed Till the End of Time into a hit (with help from Chopin and Tunesmith Ted Mossman), he decided that he had the formula: "Writing the song is only 10% of it; the rest is purely...