Word: brooklyn
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Untimely. In Brooklyn, veteran Pickpocket Samuel Hemphill complained bitterly over his arrest "just at the beginning of the season," explained: "You can't make a cent all winter; people are so bundled up with coats you can't get to them...
...situation was so tight that a man's home was no longer his castle-it was his fortress. In Brooklyn, James Stanfield, 21-year-old Marine veteran, and his wife Betty barricaded themselves in their newly rented room-and-a-half flat, dared the building superintendent, the owner, and a second veteran who had also rented the apartment, to throw them...
...pear-shaped, Sadie looks rather like a good-natured witch (a role she played last Halloween with obvious relish on WOR's Daily Dilemma). Her other assets as a quizgoer include ten years of experience, a bobbing head of tight grey curls, a Brooklyn accent, and an eagerness to do virtually anything in public for laughs-and prizes...
Last week in Manhattan, there were about 30 known quiz pros. One of the most successful and least retiring is 63-year-old Sadie Hertz of Brooklyn...
...False Representative." In 1946, Sadie claims, she was nearly ruined by a magazine article which reported that her Brooklyn apartment was jampacked with program loot, and that she netted an average $35 a week in prize money. For six months, she moans, she couldn't get on a single program: "What a noive to say I make thoity-five dollars! I never won a refrigerator in all my living life. They gimme a false representative...