Word: brooklyn
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Jonathan Sliverstone of Winthrop House and Hartford, Connecticut; NSA Delegate. Donald B. Louria of Winthrop House and Brooklyn, New York: Varsity Wrestling Captain, Varsity Soccer, Varsity Lacrosse, Undergraduate Athletic Committee...
Waiting Santa Claus. Lively, chatty, hard-working at the office, she lived quietly alone in a $34.50-a-month room. Nights, she studied for a master's degree at American University, wrote a critical paper on "Economic Planning in the Soviet Union." Most weekends, Judith went home to Brooklyn to visit her ailing parents. Her mother had heart trouble; her father, Samuel Coplon, a retired toy merchant, was paralyzed. Samuel Coplon used to be known as the "Santa Claus of the Adirondacks": he gave away thousands of toys to country kids at Christmas. One night last week, the Coplons...
...documents. In Washington, the Russian embassy loudly demanded the release of Gubichev. But the U.N., acting quicker, had already suspended the Russian, said that his U.N. job gave him no diplomatic immunity. When they were hauled away to jail, the Russian remained frozen-faced, but Judith smiled cheerfully. In Brooklyn, her mother cried...
...John Howard Melish, 74, rector of Brooklyn's Episcopal Church of the Holy Trinity, got his walking papers last week, but he declined to budge. His bishop fired him, but Rector Melish came right back with the observation that the bishop had no right to do such a thing. He sat pat and so did his son and associate rector, the Rev. William Howard Melish, 38, who was the cause of it all. Young Minister Melish's activities as chairman of the National Council of American-Soviet Friendship, and busy associate of several other organizations cited as Communist...
...Long Island's trains have been delayed by stray dogs, wet leaves on the tracks, and sea gulls short-circuiting transformers. Its trains sometimes take the wrong switch and "get lost." Last week the comedy was taken to court. The Long Island's officers marched into Brooklyn's Federal Court and declared the road bankrupt, the first U.S. Class 1 railroad to do so in four years...