Word: brooklyn
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Shortly after sticking up a Brooklyn hotel in 1960, Nathan Jackson fatally shot a pursuing policeman. Shot twice himself, Jackson got to a hospital. There, say detectives, he admitted: "I shot the colored cop. I got the drop on him." At his trial, however, Jackson testified that he had been drugged, refused water, and was in such pain that he could not remember what he said...
...first, second, third, and fourth marshals are, in that order: David H. Abramson of Eliot House and Jamaica Estates, N.Y.; John S. F. Daly of 142 Pearl St. Cambridge and Gladstone, Ill.; Ricardo A. Wilson of Adams House and Brooklyn, N.Y.; and Jerry Mechling of Leverett House and Columbus, Ohio...
NORMAN H. SELLENGUT Brooklyn...
...state assembly. Wagner backed a couple of proven mediocrities, while a coalition headed by Buckley decided to push two other candidates who were hardly less mediocre but both good Buckley men-State Senator Julian B. Erway, 65, a conservative Albany lawyer and cattle breeder, and Assemblyman Stanley Steingut, 44, Brooklyn's influential anti-Wagner Democratic leader...
...Macy's reputation as a hard competitor. The store continues to collect millions worth of free publicity from its largely mythical war against Gimbels ("Macy's Will Not Be Undersold!"), even though Gimbels has long since been supplanted as New York's second largest store by Brooklyn's Abraham & Straus (in which Jack Straus's family held a major interest until 1913). Macy's also works at burnishing its reputation as an avid civic booster, buying full-page newspaper ads that hymn the local theater, symphonies and sports teams. Its publicity-minded executives...