Word: brooklyn
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Brooklyn's Representative Emanuel Celler, a longtime Zionist, demanded from the floor of the House: "What goes on here?" He thought he spotted the man responsible for the anti-partition talk: Loy Henderson, chief of the State Department's Near East and African Division. He said that Henderson was "enthusiastic but misguided," and accused him of "intriguing behind the scenes to void decisions made on higher levels." For his known opposition to partition, Henderson had been the target for Zionist attacks before. But Celler's charge of "intriguing" was wide of the mark...
...Germany with the U.S. Army and Military Government, Koerner had painted ruins and ruined people. Now, back in Brooklyn, he concerned himself with a less apparent wasteland. Among the best of Koerner's new pictures was Subway, a familiar scene made into a nightmare of sharp realism. Koerner used one anti-realistic stunt: he vastly enlarged the head of the desperate man in the rear of the car (see cut). "That man wants to get out," Koerner says. "People would think he was crazy. But what about the woman across the aisle, who needs to be looked...
...Brittle. Even so, trains came into Grand Central Station as much as seven hours late, the Queen Elizabeth's sailing was delayed twelve hours, and 1,300 Brooklyn homes had their supplies of heating gas cut off. In Buffalo, Pittsburgh, Detroit and many another city, industrial gas and power supplies were slashed. Detroit's auto plants laid off workers by the thousands. In St. Paul, the cold halted construction work on an ice palace being built for a winter carnival, opening Jan. 31. At 20° below, the ice was too brittle to be cut into uniform blocks...
Stubby, bubbly Sherover, 59, has made a fortune out of his ideas and his energy. He has edited a newspaper in Buffalo, built a hotel in Brooklyn, managed a trade magazine in Tokyo, designed a correspondence course ("How Do You Know You Can't Write?"), and run the Linguaphone Institute into a million-dollar business. He speaks eleven languages himself, none learned by Linguaphone. He looks so much like Actor Claude Rains that autograph hounds often pursue him until rebuffed in cold Japanese...
...finance a movie version of Barry Benefield's Eddie and The Archangel Mike, a so-so seller in 1943. Workshop research indicated that what the book really needed was a new title. Sindlinger's Workshop thought up one that had almost everything in it: Texas, Heaven and Brooklyn...