Word: brooklyn
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Boxes in the Air. But to its eight million people, New York is home-whether they live in Manhattan apartments ("a box in the air"), in the serried flats of Queens, or on the elm-shaded streets of stately old Brooklyn Heights. They yearn for it while they are away. They have an unspoken pride in the city's bigness, are reassured by its noise-though many, when they go to the country, find the chirping of crickets maddening. There are reasons for their fondness for its way of life...
...after seven years in the city, he "went on the cops." He attended the school for recruits, made the grade, and was assigned to a night beat on the Brooklyn waterfront. For the next seven years, he wore a cop's uniform. He learned many things: that it was 'often more sensible to let a drunk sleep under a signboard than to haul him to the station house; that it was always wise to whistle for aid before tackling trouble. Once he waded into a gang of roistering sailors, slipped in the snow, was beaten to a pulp...
...night he was sent to investigate a call for help in a bleak and ancient Brooklyn house. He arrived just as a woman ran out. Her half-crazed husband, with a pistol, had broken through a bedroom window, bent on killing her. The house was pitch-dark. O'Dwyer got a kerosene lamp, pushed it into the room, saw that his quarry had gotten into bed. He dived, yanked back the blankets, grabbed the man's gun hand. It was like "holding the leg of a steer." The man wrestled desperately to bring his weapon to bear...
...elected to the County Court. A little later came the big break in his career. Brooklyn had been suffering an epidemic of murder; in two years, 20 unsolved cases had collected on the books. Democratic Leader Frank V. Kelly asked him to run for Kings County (Brooklyn) district attorney. He did, and was elected. Two years later he was a famous man; he had exposed and broken the notorious criminal ring, Murder, Inc., had sent seven of its members to the electric chair...
...Queen's Taste (Mon. 8:05 p.m., CBS) is the confection of Mrs. Dione Lucas, a cook who knows her sauteed onions. Last week, from Brooklyn to Baltimore, she had husbands drooling and wives making determined tries at filet de sole Walewska or crepes Suzette. Mrs. Lucas assumes, as most of her rivals hesitate to, that her watchers already know how to boil an egg, and are ready for something fancier...