Word: brooklyn
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Alarum. In Brooklyn, three police cars rushed through the streets on a tip that a woman was "yelling for help," found a perspiring man changing an auto tire-with his voluble wife trumpeting advice...
Warner Bement Berthoff, Worthington. Ohio; Warren Bruce Cheston, Rochestor, N. Y.; Stuart Hamilton Cleveland, Hallowell, Mc.; Robert Paul Davis, Dorchester; Christopher Dean, Boston; Marc George Dreyfus, Brooklyn; Robinson Oscar Everett, Durham, N. C.; Edward Alvin Ward Franklin, New York City; Victor Mainard Kimel. Allston; Richard Gordon Kleindienst, Winslow, Ariz.; Richard Reinhold Niebuhr, Hamden, Conn.; Philip Maurice Stern, New Orleans; John Wermer, New York City...
...Paint the Joint Red." Just after Repeal, Billy was hired (at $1,000 a week) by an underworld syndicate, backed by some of the more distinguished members of the Brooklyn Beer Gang, to run a big Broadway nightspot called the Casino de Paree. With the Casino, Billy revolutionized the nightclub business. His plan of action to attract the masses: 1) "Red is the most successful and exciting color, so paint the joint red"; 2) "Crowd them together-they'll communicate the excitement through their elbows"; 3) "Keep the prices reasonable, the liquor good and the food edible"; 4) "Make...
America's Town Meeting (Thurs. 8:30 p.m., ABC). "Are Communism and Christianity Incompatible?" Dorothy Thompson; the Rev. Edward V. Cardinal of Chicago's Catholic Youth Organization; the Rev. William Howard Melish, Church of the Holy Trinity (Episcopal), Brooklyn; Dr. Jerome Davis, author, churchman and longtime friend of Russia...
Miss Athas is a New Englander herself, from Gloucester, Mass. She attended high school in Chapel Hill, N.C. with the two daughters of Betty (A Tree Grows in Brooklyn) Smith, and got encouragement in her writing from their mother. The Weather of the Heart has its faults, mostly structural and obviously resulting from lack of experience. They will be forgiven easily by readers whose weary eyes have lately seen a lot of old formulas passing as new fiction...